Psychologic and Social Precursors of Coronary Disease

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Life DissatisfactionsStudies from several countries agree that patients with coronary disease are particularly apt to report dissatisfactions in many areas of their lives. Blohmke and her colleagues compared men in five categories of coronary disease with a control population.92 One or more of the categories were distinguished from controls by each of the following variables: tedious work, vocational difficulties in the past 10 years, and feeling of being ill at ease at place of work. In each case of a significant difference, the groups with coronary disease more often reported the job dissatisfaction. Bruhn et al., in a study . . .