عنوان

Biological and psychological factors in cardiovascular disease

3642712347

9783642712340

b546176

Biological and psychological factors in cardiovascular disease

[Book]

edited by Thomas H. Schmidt, Theodore M. Dembroski, Gerhard Blümchen.

Berlin, Heidelberg

Springer Berlin Heidelberg

1986

(xvi, 628 pages 153 illustrations)

From Clinical Experience to Tested Hypothesis: The Role of Psychosocial Factors in Coronary Heart Disease --;I. Psychosocial Factors and CHD --;Current and Past History of Type A Behavior Pattern --;Type A Behavior and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial --;The Predictive Power of the A/B Typology in Holland: Results of a 9.5-Year Follow-Up Study --;Type A and Other Psychosocial Factors in Relation to Coronary Heart Disease --;Is Neuroticism a Risk Factor for CAD? Is Type A a Measure of Neuroticism? --;Type A: Behavior or Trait? --;Type A as a Coping Career --;Toward a Conceptual and Methodological Redefinition --;The Importance of the Type A Subcomponent Hostility for Myocardial Infarction at Young Age --;Hostility and Conflict as Antecedents of Arousal and Disease --;Psychological Stress and Sudden Cardiac Death --;II. Cardiovascular Psychophysiology --;Behavioral Correlates of Cardiovascular Reactivity in School Children --;Familial Aspects of the Type A Behavior Pattern and Physiologic Reactivity to Stress --;Stress and Cigarette Smoking: Implications for Cardiovascular Risk --;Anger, Aerobics and Autonomic Reactivity --;Psychophysiological Responses to Mental Stress in Type A and Type B Subjects With and Without a Family History of Hypertension --;Vigilance Performance and Psychophysiologic Reactions of Type A and Vitally Exhausted Persons --;Psychophysiologic Testing of Cardiovascular Responses to Physiologic and Psychological Challenge: Analysis of Intraindividual Stability --;Psychobiological Markers of Stress in Surgeons and Anaesthetists --;New Dimensions in Studying Sympathetic Nervous System Responses to Stressors --;The Measurement of Continuous Finger Arterial Pressure Noninvasively in Stationary Subjects --;III. Pathophysiology --;Neural Mechanism in Human Cardiovascular Regulation --;Behavioral Influences on Neuroendocrines and Insulin Sensitivity as Precursors of Coronary Heart Disease --;Some Working Hypotheses on the Significance of Behaviorally Evoked Cardiovascular Reactivity to Pathophysiology --;Behavioral Aspects of Cardiovascular Reactivity in Essential Hypertension --;The Prognostic Significance of Exercise Induced Hypertension in Heart Infarction Patients --;IV. Animal Models --;Atherosclerosis, Social Dominance and Cardiovascular Reactivity --;Psychosocial Stress and Its Pathophysiological Effects in Tree Shrews (Tupaia belangeri) --;Heart Rate of Tree Shrews and Its Persistent Modification by Social Contact --;Blood Pressure Regulation by Sodium Intake and Behavioral Stress --;Individual Differences in Blood Pressure Reactivity and Behavior of Male Rats --;A Peculiar Breathing Pattern and Consequent Blood Pressure Oscillation During Social Stress --;V. Prevention and Control --;Prevention Paradox in Coronary Heart Disease --;How Does Relaxation Training Reduce Blood Pressure in Primary Hypertension? --;Hypertension: Biobehavioral Influences and Their Implications for Treatment --;Biobehavioral Effects of Antihypertensive Monotherapy: Oxprenolol and Nitrendipine --;Type A, Social Context, and Adaptation to Serious Illness: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Role of the Family in Recovery from Myocardial Infarction --;Endurance Training and Its Importance in the Prevention of Degenerative Cardiovascular Diseases.

It is an honor for me to give this short paper largely based on my expe- riences during 15 years as medical director of a rehabilitation center in Ba- varia, as a teacher at two medical schools in Munich and Innsbruck, and as an old-fashioned holistic cardiologist.

Cardiology.

Medicine.

Psychotherapy.

edited by Thomas H. Schmidt, Theodore M. Dembroski, Gerhard Blümchen.

Gerhard Blümchen

Theodore M Dembroski

Thomas H Schmidt

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