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Basic dimensions within the coronary-prone behavior pattern.

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Independent factor analyses were performed on JAS responses from four large samples of employed men and concurred that the coronary-prone behavior pattern is actually composed of at least three major, conceptually independent behavioral syndromes: I. Hard Driving, II.
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This article is published in Journal of Chronic Diseases.The article was published on 1970-05-01. It has received 164 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Jenkins activity survey.

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Occupational sources of stress: a review of the literature relating to coronary heart disease and mental ill health

TL;DR: Coronary heart disease and mental ill health together, therefore, represent a serious cost for industry both in human and financial terms.
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Work Stress and Employee Health

TL;DR: In this article, the Allostatic Load model is used as an organizing framework for reviewing the vast literature that has considered health outcomes that are associated with exposure to psychosocial stressors at work.
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Competitive drive, pattern a, and coronary heart disease: A further analysis of some data from the Western Collaborative Group Study

TL;DR: Factor analysis of the interview variables for a subsample of the WCGS resulted in five primary factors, but only two of these factors, labeled Competitive Drive and Impatience, were associated with subsequent occurrence of coronary disease.
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Prediction of clinical coronary heart disease by a test for the coronary-prone behavior pattern.

TL;DR: A prospective study of 2750 employed men who completed a computer-scored test questionnaire measuring the coronary-prone Type A behavior pattern showed that high scorers had twice the incisive risk of heart attack as low scorers.
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Lectures on Angina Pectoris and Allied States

William Osler
TL;DR: These lectures were delivered to the graduate class in medicine at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in 1896 and are republished here with slight corrections and additions.
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Personality differences between potential coronary and noncoronary subjects

TL;DR: The assessment of factors and characteristics potentially useful in identifying individuals prone to ischemic heart disease and the characterization of the changes taking place in the course of aging are concerned.
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Personality patterns in young males with coronary disease.

TL;DR: Psychological tests and brief interviews on 25 young males hospitalized for recent myocardial infarction were compared with similar data on 25 males awaiting serious surgery, revealing a pattern of personality characteristics that may have bearing on the propensity for coronary disease.
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Psychosomatic study of 46 young men with coronary artery disease.

TL;DR: It is shown that definite patterns of personality dysfunction are associated with specific psychosomatic disorders and that a patient's life expectancy may depend upon his capacity to deal with life stresses and his psychologic adjustment to the illness.
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Behavior Patterns, Blood Lipids, and Coronary Heart Disease

Ray H. Rosenman, +1 more
- 22 Jun 1963 - 
TL;DR: Serum lipids and lipoproteins were determined in a "blind study" of ten men who exhibited an overt behavior pattern which had earlier been found to be associated with a high prevalence of clinical coronary heart disease.
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