Replicability of rating the coronary-prone behaviour pattern.
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Replicability of rating the coronary-prone behaviour pattern.
The possible involvement of a specific overt behaviour pattern in the pathogenesis of clinical coronary heart disease (CHD) has been under careful study. The characteristics of this overt behaviour pattern, called Behaviour Pattern A, have been described previously (Friedman and Rosenman, 1959). In brief, it is 6haracterized by extremes of competitiveness, striving for achievement, aggressivene...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Epidemiology & Community Health
سال: 1968
ISSN: 0143-005X
DOI: 10.1136/jech.22.1.16