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Filter by:To study psychosocial risk factors for coronary heart disease in Swedish women.
Among patients undergoing elective primary coronary artery bypass graft (CABG), the principal objective of this randomized trial was to compare the efficacy of two strategies of intra-operative hemodynamic management during cardiopulmonary bypass in preventing peri-operative cardiac, cognitive and neurologic morbidity and mortality, and post-operative deterioration in patients' quality of life as measured by the SF-36.
To provide a comprehensive description of smoking beliefs and behavior among rural Blacks, and to test the effectiveness of smoking cessation strategies delivered through Black churches.
To investigate the differential diagnosis and longitudinal course of medical outpatients complaining of palpitations. Also, to further examine the process of cardiac perception, the psychological factors which influence it, and the accurate awareness of cardiac arrhythmias.
To study the process of recycling failed smoking cessation attempts and relapses.
To develop a dietary intervention method that was capable of producing large sustained weight losses and was thus suitable for use in clinical trials related to obesity.
To examine racial and psychosocial influences on blood pressure control.
To test the hypothesis that the aggressive treatment of plasma LDL and oxidized LDL will result in improvements in the activity of ischemia in patients with coronary artery disease and will reverse characteristic cell/vessel wall dysfunctions in the arteries of these patients.
To examine the effect on health and disease of the work environment, psychological workload, control over work pacing and content, opportunity for use of skills, social support at work; the moderating effect on these relationships of social supports; and, the interaction between these psychosocial factors and other established risk factors in the etiology of chronic disease.
To conduct a multicenter prevalence survey for characterizing pathologically the extent of atherosclerosis in the aortas and coronary arteries of young persons dying from accidental causes, suicide, or homicide.