TY  - JOUR
T1  - TYpe d personality and mortality in peripheral arterial disease—invited critique
AU  - Illig KA
Y1  - 2009/08/14
N1  - 10.1001/archsurg.2009.76
JO  - Archives of Surgery
SP  - 733
EP  - 733
VL  - 144
IS  - 8
N2  - 
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.

SN  - 0004-0010
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archsurg.2009.76
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2009.76
ER  -