Type A Personality
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

Psychological factors, coffee and risk of diabetes mellitus among middle-aged Japanese: a population-based prospective study in the JPHC study cohort.

5 Mar 2009 An association between psychological factors and diabetes has been suspected for a long time. However, epidemiological data on this association is limited. We investigated the association between psychological factors (perceived mental stress and ... Read more...

Personality characteristics influencing determinacy of day and night blood pressure and heart rate.

30 Dec 2008 The evidence of emotional impacts on day and night blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR) and non-dipping of BP remains fragmentary. Personality traits previously tested by self-reports as determinants of office, screening or mean daytime BP produced ... Read more...

[Anxiety and depression in residents - results of a Swiss longitudinal study]

30 Dec 2008 OBJECTIVES: The study investigates the development of anxiety and depression during residents' postgraduate training as well as the symptom patterns and the prediction of these patterns of impaired affectivity by personality factors. It furthermore ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Type A Personality'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Heartfelt emotions. 13 Aug 2009
• Psychological factors, coffee and risk of diabetes mellitus among middle-aged Japanese: a population-based prospective study in the JPHC study cohort. 5 Mar 2009
• [Psychosomatic risk factors in coronary heart disease. What breaks your patients' heart] 3 Mar 2009
• Personality characteristics influencing determinacy of day and night blood pressure and heart rate. 30 Dec 2008
• [Anxiety and depression in residents - results of a Swiss longitudinal study] 30 Dec 2008
• Depression and cardiovascular disease. 7 Dec 2008
• Chronic psychosocial factors and acute physiological responses to laboratory-induced stress in healthy populations: a quantitative review of 30 years of investigations. 30 Oct 2008
• Commentary: Type A behaviour and heart disease: no less inscrutable in Japan. 7 Sep 2008
• Cardiovascular activity during laboratory tasks in women with high and low worry. 23 Jul 2008
• Type A behaviour and risk of coronary heart disease: the JPHC Study. 29 Jun 2008
• Effects of milk casein-derived peptides on absolute oxyhaemoglobin concentrations in the prefrontal area and on work efficiency after mental stress loading in male students. 29 Jun 2008
• [Anxiety and coronary heart disease] 30 May 2008
• The prospective contribution of hostility characteristics to high fasting glucose levels: the moderating role of marital status. 4 May 2008
• A lesson never learned. 29 Apr 2008
• [Risk factors of early sexual initiation] 30 Mar 2008
• Trait negative affect: toward an integrated model of understanding psychological risk for impairment in cardiac autonomic function. 29 Mar 2008
• Infant growth and hostility in adult life. 29 Mar 2008
• Dissociative experiences differentiate bipolar-II from unipolar depressed patients: the mediating role of cyclothymia and the Type A behaviour speed and impatience subscale. 18 Feb 2008
• Does personality predict mortality? Results from the GAZEL French prospective cohort study. 6 Feb 2008
• Is the association between job strain and carotid intima-media thickness attributable to pre-employment environmental and dispositional factors? The Cardiovascular Risk in Young Finns Study. 16 Jan 2008

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Technical information about 'Type A Personality'

Definition: Established behavior pattern characterized by excessive drive and ambition, impatience, competitiveness, sense of time urgency, and poorly contained aggression.

Descriptor UI: D014434

Alternative terms: Type A Personality; Personalities, Type A; Personality, Type A; Type A Personalities; Personality Type A; Type A, Personality; Coronary-Prone Personality; Coronary Prone Personality; Coronary-Prone Personalities; Personalities, Coronary-Prone; Personality, Coronary-Prone;

Tree Number: F01.752.747.880;

History Note: 85

Technical Notes: no qualif