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April 8, 2005QJM

Type D personality: the heart, stress, and cortisol

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Cardiac patients and healthy humans (general discussion on Type D personality)

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LSLeo SherJames J. Peters VA Medical Center

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Cortisol reactivity may mediate Type D-CHD link; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective causal studies before clinical consideration.

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Cardiac patients and healthy humans (general discussion on Type D personality)

Type D personality may increase the risk of coronary heart disease through elevated cortisol reactivity to stress.

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Leo Sher (2005) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a87283c847a2f24f1d3b92d https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/hci064

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