Personality, Disease Severity, and the Risk of Long-term Cardiac Events in Patients With a Decreased Ejection Fraction After Myocardial Infarction
- 20 January 1998
- journal article
- other
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Circulation
- Vol. 97 (2) , 167-173
- https://doi.org/10.1161/01.cir.97.2.167
Abstract
Background—Patients with myocardial infarction (MI) with a decreased left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) have a poor prognosis, but the role of emotional stress in prognosis is not known. We ...Keywords
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