Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care
Volume 36, Issue 5 , Pages 330-338 , September 2007

Perspectives that lay persons with and without health problems show toward coronary heart disease: An integrated biopsychosocial approach

  • Sven Ingmar Andersson, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Psychology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Sven Ingmar Andersson, PhD, Department of Psychology, Lund University, Paradisgatan 5 P, P.O. Box 213, SE-223 50 Lund, Sweden.
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  • Erkki Pesonen, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital, Lund University, Lund, Sweden
    • ,
  • Hans Öhlin, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Cardiology, Lund University Hospital, Lund, Sweden.

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 Competing interests: None reported.

PII: S0147-9563(07)00048-9

doi: 10.1016/j.hrtlng.2007.02.004

Heart & Lung: The Journal of Acute and Critical Care
Volume 36, Issue 5 , Pages 330-338 , September 2007

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