Type A Behavior: Epidemiologic Foundations and Public Health Implications
Annual Review of Public HealthPublished 1 May 1984
Judith M. Siegel
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The purpose in this chapter is to review the evidence bearing upon an association between Type A behavior and heart disease, and the physiological mechanisms that could possibly account for a relationship.
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