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Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of disability and death in developed countries and about half of all cases are directly attributable to coronary heart diseases (National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, 1998), which are a direct consequence of coronary atherosclerosis. The Framingham Study and other large-scale cohort studies have initiated the identification of a number of determinants and risk factors for atherosclerosis, such as male sex, obesity, smoking, physical inactivity, blood lipids, family history and others (Dawber,
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ROTHENBACHER, D., ROTT, C., JOPP, D., BRENNER, H. (2006). DETERMINANTS, PROGNOSTIC RELEVANCE AND DEVELOPMENT OF ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION IN PATIENTS WITH CORONARY HEART DISEASE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH WITHIN THE KAROLA STUDY. In: Wahl, HW., Brenner, H., Mollenkopf, H., Rothenbacher, D., Rott, C. (eds) The Many Faces of Health, Competence and Well-Being in Old Age. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-4138-1_23
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