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Type A Behavior: Its Possible Relationship to Pathogenetic Processes Responsible for Coronary Heart Disease (a Preliminary Enquiry)

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Coronary-Prone Behavior

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The data so far accumulated that suggest that the behavior pattern we have described as Type A* may play a role in the pathogenesis of clinical coronary heart disease (CHD) fall into five categories.

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  1. Meyer Friedman
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Behavioral Science Department, Eckerd College, St. Petersburg, Florida, 33733, USA

    Theodore M. Dembroski Ph.D. (Associate Professor of Psychology) (Associate Professor of Psychology)

  2. Behavioral Medicine Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20014, USA

    Stephen M. Weiss Ph.D. (Acting Chief) (Acting Chief)

  3. Division of Heart and Vascular Diseases, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20014, USA

    Jim L. Shields Ph.D. (Deputy Director) (Deputy Director)

  4. Epidemiology Branch, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, 20014, USA

    Suzanne G. Haynes Ph.D.  & Manning Feinleib M.D., Dr. P.H. (Chief) &  (Chief)

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Friedman, M. (1978). Type A Behavior: Its Possible Relationship to Pathogenetic Processes Responsible for Coronary Heart Disease (a Preliminary Enquiry). In: Dembroski, T.M., Weiss, S.M., Shields, J.L., Haynes, S.G., Feinleib, M. (eds) Coronary-Prone Behavior. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-86007-2_10

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