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Psychosocial Etiology of Coronary Heart Disease

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A rapid increase in the incidence of coronary heart disease occurred in most industrial countries after World War II. The “epidemic” reached a peak in the end of the 1960’s in the United States, somewhat later in North European countries. During the last decade one has witnessed a decline in several countries, but still coronary heart disease is one of the major health problems in the western world.

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  1. Institute of Behavioural Sciences in Medicine, University of Oslo, Oslo 3, Norway

    Einar Kringlen

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  1. Psychosomatic Service and Research, Champlain Valley Physicians, Hospital Medical Center, 12901, Plattsburgh, New York, USA

    Adam J. Krakowski M.D. (Chief) (Chief)

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Pritzker School of Medicine, The University of Chicago, 950 East 59th Street, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Chase Patterson Kimball M.D. (Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine) (Professor of Psychiatry and Medicine)

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Kringlen, E. (1983). Psychosocial Etiology of Coronary Heart Disease. In: Krakowski, A.J., Kimball, C.P. (eds) Psychosomatic Medicine. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4496-4_12

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