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Psychosocial and biobehavioral factors and their interplay in coronary heart disease.
Annual review of clinical psychology - 1 Jan 2008
Williams Redford B
Abstract excerpt
Recent epidemiological research has confirmed that psychosocial factors are associated with increased risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD), a major cause of death and disability worldwide. This association is probably mediated by changes in health risk behaviors and neuroendocrine and autonomic functions that affect metabolic, hemostatic, inflammatory, and cardiovascular functions that are the proximal...
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