The monkey puzzle: a systematic review of studies of stress, social hierarchies, and heart disease in monkeys.

It is often suggested that psychosocial factors, such as stress, or one's social position, may play an important role in producing social gradients in human disease. Evidence in favour of this model of health inequalities has relied, in part, on studies of the health effects of the natural soci...

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Main Authors: Mark Petticrew, George Davey Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3309950?pdf=render