Panic disorder and incident coronary heart disease: A systematic review and meta-regression in 1 131 612 persons and 58 111 cardiac events

Psychological Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 2909-2920

  Tully, P J ^a,b   Turnbull, D A ^a   Beltrame, J ^c   Horowitz, J ^c   Cosh, S ^d   Baumeister, H ^b   Wittert, G A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aetiology; anxiety disorder; anxiety neurosis; coronary heart disease; meta analysis; myocardial infarction; panic attack; panic disorder; systematic review

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMAN; META ANALYSIS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; PANIC DISORDER; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK FACTOR;

ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CORONARY DISEASE; HUMANS; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ODDS RATIO; PANIC DISORDER; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84948085306     PISSN: 00332917     EISSN: 14698978     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033291715000963     Document Type: Article

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