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- Title
Type D personality and mortality in peripheral arterial disease: a pilot study.
- Authors
Aquarius, Annelies E; Smolderen, Kim G; Hamming, Jaap F; De Vries, Jolanda; Vriens, Patrick W; Denollet, Johan
- Abstract
Type D personality refers to the tendency to experience negative emotions and to inhibit self-expression in social interaction and has been shown to be an independent predictor of mortality in cardiac disease. Information about the effects of psychological traits on prognosis is lacking in cases of peripheral arterial disease (PAD).
- Publication
Archives of surgery (Chicago, Ill. : 1960), 2009, Vol 144, Issue 8, p728
- ISSN
1538-3644
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1001/archsurg.2009.75