Emotional Vitality and Incident Coronary Heart Disease
Archives of General PsychiatryPublished 1 December 2007
Laura D. Kubzansky, Rebecca C. Thurston
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Emotional vitality may protect against risk of CHD in men and women and one way in which emotional vitality may influence coronary health is via health behaviors, including depressive symptoms or other psychological problems.
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Emotional vitality may protect against risk of CHD in men and women.
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