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The correlation between everyday stress and angina pectoris a longitudinal study. / Verthein, U; Köhler, T.

In: J PSYCHOSOM RES, Vol. 43, No. 3, 09.1997, p. 241-5.

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Verthein, U & Köhler, T 1997, 'The correlation between everyday stress and angina pectoris a longitudinal study', J PSYCHOSOM RES, vol. 43, no. 3, pp. 241-5.

APA

Verthein, U., & Köhler, T. (1997). The correlation between everyday stress and angina pectoris a longitudinal study. J PSYCHOSOM RES, 43(3), 241-5.

Vancouver

Verthein U, Köhler T. The correlation between everyday stress and angina pectoris a longitudinal study. J PSYCHOSOM RES. 1997 Sep;43(3):241-5.

Bibtex

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title = "The correlation between everyday stress and angina pectoris a longitudinal study",
abstract = "The article describes a longitudinal study testing the hypothesis that everyday stress can aggravate angina pectoris (AP). Every weekend for 1 year, 42 patients with coronary heart disease filled out a questionnaire on perceived stress for the preceding week. They also rated AP symptoms, again for the previous week. Within-subject correlation between stress and severity of AP was quite pronounced in some subjects and resulted in a sample mean of 0.38. The distribution of correlation coefficients in the sample was significantly different from a random distribution around 0. Stress values also predicted AP in the week to come. However, this finding was no longer significant when the influence of lag 1 auto-correlations between stress values was eliminated. Our results show that the effect of everyday stress on AP is essentially immediate and that it can be quite important in some subjects.",
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