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Anxiety and risk of cardiac events

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Anxiety has been shown to have prognostic importance in the development of coronary heart disease in initially healthy adults. This finding highlights the need of future research that includes representative samples of women and minorities, and uses precise assessment tools and careful ascertainment of clinical end points.

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J. A. Blumenthal is supported, in part, by grants HL074103, HL080664, and HL093374 from the NIH.

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Blumenthal, J., Smith, P. Anxiety and risk of cardiac events. Nat Rev Cardiol 7, 606–608 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrcardio.2010.139

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