Titre : | Time urgency and risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction : Socioeconomic differentials in health. (2001) |
Auteurs : | Stephen-R COLE ; Julie-E Buring ; Jmichael GAZIANO ; Charles-H Hennekens ; Ichiro Kawachi ; Joann-E MANSON ; SIMIN LIU . (.) ; Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention. Harvard Medical School. Boston. MA. USA ; Department of Health and Social Behavior. Harvard School of Public Health. Boston. MA. USA ; Division of Preventive Medicine. Department of Medicine. Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Boston. MA. USA |
Type de document : | Article |
Dans : | International journal of epidemiology (vol. 30, n° 2, 2001) |
Pagination : | 363-369 |
Langues: | Anglais |
Mots-clés : | Cardiopathie coronaire ; Infarctus ; Myocarde ; Comportement ; Epidémiologie ; Evaluation ; Homme ; Appareil circulatoire [pathologie] ; Myocarde [pathologie] |
Résumé : | [BDSP. Notice produite par INIST RWR0xrw0. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Background Inconsistencies in the literature linking Type A behaviour pattern (TAB) to coronary heart disease (CHD) may be due to differences in the effects of various components of TAB, namely aggressiveness, hostility, ambitiousness, competitive drive, and a chronic sense of time urgency. Methods We investigated the association between sense of time urgency/impatience and non-fatal myocardial infarction (MI) in a study of 340 cases and an equal number of age-sex-and community-matched controls. Results A dose-response relation was apparent among subjects who rated themselves higher on the four-item time urgencylimpatience scale (P-value for trend |