Evaluating the longitudinal risk of social vigilance on atherosclerosis: study protocol for the North Texas Heart Study

Introduction Psychosocial factors are increasingly recognised as important determinants of cardiovascular disease risk. The North Texas Heart Study aims to understand the mechanisms responsible for this association with a focus on social vigilance (ie, scanning the environment for social threats). T...

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Main Authors: Ruiz, John M, Taylor, Daniel J, Uchino, Bert N, Smith, Timothy W, Allison, Matthew, Ahn, Chul, Johnson, Jillian J, Smyth, Joshua M
Other Authors: Univ Arizona, Dept Psychol
Language:en
Published: BMJ PUBLISHING GROUP 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/626002
http://arizona.openrepository.com/arizona/handle/10150/626002