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International Journal of Epidemiology, doi:10.1093/ije/dym069
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Commentary: Masculinity, femininity and heart disease

Elizabeth Barrett-Connor

Division of Epidemiology, Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, CA 92093-0607. E-mail: ebarrettconnor@ucsd.edu

Accepted 15 March 2007

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Women have less and later coronary heart disease (CHD) than men worldwide, unlikely to be explained by men's more unfavourable lifestyle or the pressures of their more frequent work outside the home, previously popular explanations.1 Differences in male and female personality are another explanation for male–female CHD disparities. In a 1999 systematic review of psychosocial factors in the aetiology of CHD, Hemingway and Marmot1 found type A behaviour/hostility was the only personality trait that had been studied prospectively in at least two population-based studies with CHD outcomes; a positive association was found . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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