From the Division of Cardiology (V.V., L.J.S.), and the Division of General Medicine (S.P.), Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia; the Department of Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (B.D.J., C.M.C., M.B.O.); the Cardiovascular Institute, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (O.C.M.); the Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (D.S.S.); the Division of Cardiovascular Disease, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, Alabama (V.B.); the Department of Psychiatry, University of California, San Diego, California (T.R.); the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, Maryland (G.S.); the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland (D.S.K.); and the Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Research Institute, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California (C.N.B.M.).
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Viola Vaccarino, MD, PhD, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, 1256 Briarcliff Road NE, Suite-1 North, Atlanta, GA 30306. E-mail: [email protected]
Received for publication April 18, 2007; revision received July 30, 2007.
This work was supported by contracts from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institutes, nos. N01-HV-68161, N01-HV-68162, N01-HV-68163, N01-HV-68164; Grants K24HL077506, R01-HL68630, and R01 AG026255 (to V.V.); a GCRC Grant M01-RR00425 from the National Center for Research Resources; and Grants from the Gustavus and Louis Pfeiffer Research Foundation, The Women's Guild, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and the Ladies Hospital Aid Society of Western Pennsylvania, and QMED, Inc.
