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    Stress and the heart : psychosocial pathways to coronary heart disease / edited by Stephen Stansfeld and Michael Marmot.

    • Title:Stress and the heart : psychosocial pathways to coronary heart disease / edited by Stephen Stansfeld and Michael Marmot.
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    • Other Contributors/Collections:Stansfeld, Stephen A.
      Marmot, Michael, 1945-
    • Published/Created:London : BMJ Books, ©2002.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Coronary heart disease--Psychological aspects.
    • Description:xi, 304 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:0727912771 (pbk.)
    • Contents:1. Introduction / Stephen Stansfeld and Michael Marmot
      2. Social class and coronary heart disease / Michael Marmot and Mel Bartley
      3. Life course approaches to inequalities in coronary heart disease risk / George Davey Smith, Yoav Ben-Shlomo and John Lynch
      4. Work and coronary heart disease / Michael Marmot, Tores Theorell and Johannes Siegrist
      5. Social relations and coronary heart disease / Stephen Stansfeld and Rebecca Fuhrer
      6. Hostility, psychosocial risk factors, changes in brain serotonergic function, and heart disease / Redford Williams
      7. Depression and coronary heart disease / Stephen Stansfeld and Rebecca Fuhrer
      8. Impact of stress on diet: processes and implications / Jane Wardle and E. Leigh Gibson
      9. Smoking and stress / Martin Jarvis
      10. Physical activity and stress / Kamaldeep Bhui
      11. Psychophysiological responsivity in coronary heart disease / Andrew Steptoe and Gonneke Willemsen
      12. Stress mechanisms in coronary heart disease / Eric Brunner
      13. Arterial and myocardial structure and function: contributions of socioeconomic status and chronic psychosocial factors / Harry Hemingway
      14. Social and psychosocial influences on sudden cardiac death, ventricular arrhythmia, and cardiac autonomic function / Harry Hemingway
      15. Stress and gene-environment interactions in coronary heart disease / Hugh Montgomery, Harry Hemingway and Steve Humphries
      16. Psychosocial interventions in coronary heart disease / Matthew Burg and Lisa Berkman.
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