Open AccessDispositional Optimism and All-Cause and Cardiovascular Mortality ina Prospective Cohort of Elderly Dutch Men and Women
Author(s) -
Erik J. Giltay,
Johanna M. Geleijnse,
Frans G. Zitman,
Tiny Hoekstra,
Evert G. Schouten
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
archives of general psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1538-3636
pISSN - 0003-990X
DOI - 10.1001/archpsyc.61.11.1126
Subject(s) - hazard ratio , medicine , optimism , quartile , demography , confidence interval , cohort study , prospective cohort study , cohort , body mass index , gerontology , proportional hazards model , depression (economics) , population , epidemiology , psychology , environmental health , social psychology , sociology , economics , macroeconomics
Major depression is known to be related to higher cardiovascular mortality. However, epidemiological data regarding dispositional optimism in relation to mortality are scanty.