INFLUENCE OF ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION AND OBESITY ON LEFT ATRIAL SIZE

ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHIC CHANGES AFTER PNEUMONECTOMIAM

The relationship of psyhosocial factors to heart disease has been a subject of intellectual and practical interest in medicine for hundreds of years. A psychosocial factor may be defined as a measurement that potentially relates psychological phenomena to the social environment and to pathophysiological changes. In healthy populations, prospective cohort studies show a possible aetiological role for type A/hostility , depression and anxiety , social support psychosocial work characteristics.