Fig. 17.1 Death rates in Europe, men and women <75 years of age; www.ehnheart.org/cvd-statistics.htlm, reprinted with permission from the World Health Organization Women’s Risk Factor Burden and Psychosocial Determinants of…
1. Logkeeping 2. Think before you act to decide between action and deflection 3. Deflection 4. Problem solving 5. Assertion 6. Saying no 7. Speaking 8. Listening 9. Empathy 10….
Fig. 4.1 Anatomy of the heart and the epicardial coronary arteries Clinical Events and the Underlying Coronary Artery Disease Among the most serious clinical events are fatal myocardial infarction, sudden…
, Hans-Christian Deter2 and Kristina Orth-Gomér3 (1) Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden (2) Department of Psychosomatic Medicine, Charité University Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Berlin, Germany (3) Department of Clinical Neuroscience, Karolinska Institute,…
Fig. 10.1 Causal model whereby genes and environment affect brain systems responsible for expression of health behaviors, psychological traits and states, and neuroendocrine and autonomic functions that influence components of…
Fig. 6.1 Hospital mortality rates by sex and age among 384,878 myocardial infarction patients enrolled in the National Registry of Myocardial Infarction II. Women in the younger age groups show…
Fig. 15.1 Cumulative all-cause mortality rate for psychosocial intervention and usual care patients. Adapted from Orth-Gomér et al. (2009) Although SWITCHD (Orth-Gomér et al. 2009) was not designed to study…
Fig. 9.1 Cardiovascular disease mortality in the Netherlands in 2011, stratified by age cohorts and sex (CBS 2013a) Evidence indicates considerable differences between women versus men in the prevalence of…
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015Kristina Orth-Gomér, Neil Schneiderman, Viola Vaccarino and Hans-Christian Deter (eds.)Psychosocial Stress and Cardiovascular Disease in Women10.1007/978-3-319-09241-6_12 12. Inhibited Breathing and Salt-Sensitive Hypertension in Women David E. Anderson1 and Margaret A. Chesney2 (1) Division of Nephrology, Department…
Fig. 11.1 Neurocardiac Model of Early Stress, Mental Disorders, and Cardiovascular Function The Effects of Early Stress on Neurohormonal and Neurochemical Systems Stress is associated with activation of the hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal…
