Coronary artery disease continues to be a major cause of morbidity and mortality despite
significant advances in risk stratification and management. This has prompted the search for …

▪ Abstract Dominance hierarchies exist in numerous social species, and rank in such
hierarchies can dramatically influence the quality of an individual's life. Rank can …

Background Psychosocial factors have been reported to be independently associated with
coronary heart disease. However, previous studies have been in mainly North American or …

Various psychosocial factors have been implicated in the etiology and pathogenesis of
certain cardiovascular diseases such as atherosclerosis, now considered to be the result of …

Aims Heart rate reduction is the cornerstone of the treatment of angina. The purpose of this
study was to explore the prognostic value of heart rate in patients with stable coronary artery …

Background—Mental stress has been linked to increased morbidity and mortality in coronary
artery disease and to atherosclerosis progression. Experimental studies have suggested …

In previous publications, we presented the hypothesis that repeated episodes of acute or
chronic psychological stress could induce an acute phase response (APR) and …

Two major health problems illustrate the social determinants of health: the social gradient in
disease, and the striking differences in life expectancy between the countries of western …

Discussed here are conceptual and methodologic issues that bear on the role of
bebaviorally evoked cardiovascular reactivity in cardiovascular disease. It is argued that …

Although many laboratory studies have demonstrated changes in cardiac autonomic control
during psychological stress, few have attempted to demonstrate this effect in ambulatory …