Psychology 2035A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Coronary Artery Disease, Coronary Circulation, Inflammatory Bowel Disease
22 Jul 2018
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Inflammation of the arteries may contribute to atherosclerosis and elevated coronary risk. In this situation, a blood clot might suddenly block the flow of blood through the artery. Hostility and coronary risk: research suggests a link between coronary risk and a behavior pattern termed the type. A personality: stress prone individuals (type as) are identified as more competitive, time urgent, and angry, type a personality has three components, a strong competitive orientation (socially and at work, anger and hostility. Working with a large sample of healthy men and women who were followed for a median of 4. 5 years, williams et al. (2000) found an association between trait anger and the likelihood of a coronary event. Mechanisms that may link hostility and anger to heart disease. Explanations for the apparent link between cynical hostility and heart disease are many and varied. Four widely discussed possibilities are summarized in the middle column of this diagram.
