RT Journal
A1 Illig KA
T1 TYpe d personality and mortality in peripheral arterial disease—invited critique
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 2009
FD August 14
VO 144
IS 8
SP 733
OP 733
DO 10.1001/archsurg.2009.76
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2009.76
AB 
Aquarius and colleagues, in this relatively straightforward study, provide us with a bit of objectivity regarding this concept. Even after controlling for age, diabetes mellitus, and renal and pulmonary disease, patients with vascular disease whose premorbid answers on a personality questionnaire put them into the type-D (“distressed”) category had a 3-fold higher risk of death when observed for 4 years.