14. The Type A Behavior Pattern and Coronary Artery Disease: Quest for the Active Ingredients and the Elusive Mechanism

1991 ◽  
pp. 275-300
Keyword(s):  
Coronary Artery Disease ◽  
Coronary Artery ◽  
Behavior Pattern ◽  
Type A ◽  
Type A Behavior ◽  
Active Ingredients ◽  
Type A Behavior Pattern ◽  
Artery Disease

Type A behavior and survival: A follow-up study of 1,467 patients with coronary artery disease

1989 ◽  
Vol 64 (8) ◽  
pp. 427-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
John C. Barefoot ◽  
Bercedis L. Peterson ◽  
Frank E. Harrell ◽  
Mark A. Hlatky ◽  
David B. Pryor ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coronary Artery Disease ◽  
Coronary Artery ◽  
Type A ◽  
Type A Behavior ◽  
Follow Up Study ◽  
Artery Disease

Effect of type A behavior on exercise test outcome in coronary artery disease

1990 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
William C. Siegel ◽  
Mark A. Hlatky ◽  
Daniel B. Mark ◽  
John C. Barefoot ◽  
Frank E. Harrell ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Coronary Artery Disease ◽  
Coronary Artery ◽  
Exercise Test ◽  
Type A ◽  
Type A Behavior ◽  
Artery Disease

Neuroendocrine Correlates of the Type a Behavior Pattern: A Review and New Hypotheses

1988 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 289-307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maurizio Fava ◽  
Andrew Littman ◽  
Peter Halperin
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Pattern ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Type A ◽  
Dehydroepiandrosterone Sulfate ◽  
Type A Behavior ◽  
System Response ◽  
Pathogenic Role ◽  
Type A Behavior Pattern ◽  
Artery Disease

Various studies have tried to identify the possible neuroendocrine correlates of the action/emotion complex defined as Type A behavior pattern. Type A subjects have been observed quite consistently to respond to laboratory stressors with a greater sympathetic nervous system response than Type B subjects. There also seems to be a trend towards a hyperactivity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis in Type A individuals. The clinical relevance of these findings lies in the fact that there is an increasing clinical and laboratory evidence of a pathogenic role of catecholamines in coronary artery disease (CAD) and that some of these neuroendocrine correlates might actually be the mediators of the risk of CAD conferred by the Type A behavior pattern. We hypothesize that dehydroepiandrosterone-sulfate (DHEA-S), an adrenal weak androgen, is inversely correlated with the degree of Type A behavior pattern and this hypothesis seems to be confirmed by the results of a preliminary investigation that we have conducted.

Social support, type A behavior, and coronary artery disease.

1987 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 331-340 ◽  
Author(s):  
J A Blumenthal ◽  
M M Burg ◽  
J Barefoot ◽  
R B Williams ◽  
T Haney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Support ◽  
Coronary Artery Disease ◽  
Coronary Artery ◽  
Type A ◽  
Type A Behavior ◽  
Artery Disease
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