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Behavioral Clusters And Coronary Heart Disease Risk, B. Kent Houston, Margaret A. Chesney, George W. Black, David S. Cates, Michael H.L. Hecker

Journal Articles: Nebraska Medicine

The purpose of the present study was to empirically identify individuals who differed in their patterns of components derived from the structured interview (SI), and to evaluate whether individuals characterized by the different patterns varied in terms of their risk for coronary heart disease (CHD). The present study represents a reanalysis of data from the Western Collaborative Group Study in which components of Type A were individually related to risk for CHD. Subgroups of individuals who differed in the patterns of their component scores were identified by means of cluster analytic techniques and were found to vary in their risk …