Hostility Predicts Recurrent Events among Postmenopausal Women with Coronary Heart Disease
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Hostility predicts recurrent events among postmenopausal women with coronary heart disease.
Psychosocial characteristics may be associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD). Whether hostility predicts recurrent coronary events is unknown. A total of 792 women in the Heart and Estrogen/progestin Replacement Study (HERS) were evaluated prospectively to determine the role of hostility as a risk factor for secondary CHD events (nonfatal myocardial infarction and CHD d...
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عنوان ژورنال: American Journal of Epidemiology
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0002-9262
DOI: 10.1093/aje/kwf158