Commentary: Type A behaviour and heart disease: no less inscrutable in Japan

Gallacher, John Edward ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2394-5299 2008. Commentary: Type A behaviour and heart disease: no less inscrutable in Japan. International Journal of Epidemiology 37 (6) , pp. 1406-1407. 10.1093/ije/dyn187

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Abstract

Ikeda et al. present the first large-scale prospective evidence on the association of Type A behaviour with heart disease from an Asian population sample.1 Follow-up of 86 361 Japanese over 10 years found no association in women and an inverse association in men. Men with the lowest Type A scores had a 32% greater risk of newly diagnosed heart disease and a 35% greater risk of myocardial infarction. Greater risk of similar magnitude was also shown for all other indices of heart disease although these did not achieve formal levels of statistical significance. Interest in this study lies in its cultural context. The main limitation is the assessment of Type A behaviour.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Medicine Systems Immunity Research Institute (SIURI)
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General)
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
ISSN:	0300-5771
Last Modified:	20 Oct 2022 07:52
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/26718

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