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This long-awaited, much-needed addition to the literature on coronary heart disease (CHD) comprehensively reviews the published proceedings of the 1994 Stockholm international conference 'Women, Stress, and Heart Disease.' -CHOICE The strength of this book lies in the comprehensive and scholarly coverage of the mechanisms that can lead to heart disease in women....Throughout the book, the importance of 'coronary-prone' situations for women is constantly reinforced with excellent examples drawn from research findings. -Journal of Health Psychology Health professionals in [England] have so far not paid due attention to psychosocial factors in the causation of heart disease, but with most hospitals now providing cardiac rehabilitation programmes it is clear that more people will become interested in cardiac psychology. They will certainly find [this] book essential reading. -British Journal of Medical Psychology

"""This long-awaited, much-needed addition to the literature on coronary heart disease (CHD) comprehensively reviews the published proceedings of the 1994 Stockholm international conference 'Women, Stress, and Heart Disease.'"" —CHOICE ""The strength of this book lies in the comprehensive and scholarly coverage of the mechanisms that can lead to heart disease in women....Throughout the book, the importance of 'coronary-prone' situations for women is constantly reinforced with excellent examples drawn from research findings."" —Journal of Health Psychology ""Health professionals in [England] have so far not paid due attention to psychosocial factors in the causation of heart disease, but with most hospitals now providing cardiac rehabilitation programmes it is clear that more people will become interested in cardiac psychology. They will certainly find [this] book essential reading."" —British Journal of Medical Psychology"

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Kristina Orth-Gom'R (Edited by) ,  Margaret A. Chesney (Edited by) ,  Nanette Kass Wenger (Edited by) ,  Kristina Orth-Gomer (Edited by)

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