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Heart Disease : Environment, Stress and Gender.

This text attempts to answer the question: Why do men get more heart disease than women? The book focuses on environmental, behavioural, and psychosocial variables, as well as new risk factors of a biological nature in an attempt to understand the gender gap in heart disease.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kopp, M. S.
Otros Autores: Kristenson, M., Weidner, G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : IOS Press, 2002.
Colección:NATO science series. Life and behavioural sciences ; v. 327.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Title page; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contributors; Foreword; Contents; Chapter 1 The Role of Stress and Gender-related Factors in the Increase in Heart Disease in Eastern Europe: Overview; Chapter 2 The Population Health Context for Gender, Stress and Cardiovascular Disease in Central and Eastern Europe; Chapter 3 Adverse Health Effects of Effort-Reward Imbalance
  • Applying the Model to Eastern Europe; Chapter 4 Premature Circulatory Disease Mortality in Russia: Population- and Individual-Level Evidence.
  • Chapter 5 Coronary Heart Disease and Cardiovascular Mortality in the Urban Siberian Population: Gender-specific Findings from a 10-year Cohort StudyChapter 6 Trends in Gender Differences in Coronary Heart Disease Mortality
  • Relationships to Trends in Health-related Behavior and Changing Gender Roles; Chapter 7 Risk Factors and Inequality in Relation to Morbidity and Mortality in a Changing Society; Chapter 8 Sociodemographic and Behavioral Correlates of Depression in Hungarian Women.