Epidemiology and standard risk factors in relation to psychosocial risk factors for coronary heart disease

Abstract

Women die from coronary heart disease as often as men, but they get the disease about 10 years later in life. Nine coronary risk factors predict almost all of the cases. Among them are smoking, nutrition, lack of exercise, and psychosocial factors, including stress at work and in the family, negative life event, lack of control, deficient social networks, low socio-economic status and depression.