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Article: `Type A' Men More Likely Than `Type B' to Survive Heart Disease, Study Says
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- The Washington Post
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- January 14, 1988
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Challenging one of the more popular notions of modern health
care, researchers say they have found evidence that men with
hard-driving "Type A" personalities are almost twice as likely to
survive heart disease as those who are less aggressive.
The study also questions the theory that Type A behavior leads to
a higher risk of getting heart disease, a theory that has led
millions of Americans to change their life styles.
"The results really stunned us," said David R. Ragland, an
epidemiologist at the School of Public Health at the University of
California at Berkelely. "Changing Type A behavior may prove to have
no beneficial effect and there is some evidence that it will even be
harmful."
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