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Targets of psychosocial intervention Target 1 Target 2 Target 3 Target 4 Target 5 Psychological reducing symptoms Depression Anxiety Hostility Pain Exhaustion Changing personality traits Self-esteem Salutogenesis Type A Type…

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…

, 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,…

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…

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…