From the Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology (K.S.W., D.S.K., A.J.W.), Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland; VA San Diego Healthcare System (T.R.), San Diego; School of Nursing (J.-A.E.), University of California Los Angeles; Women’s Heart Center (J.-A.E., C.N.B.M.), Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute, Los Angeles, California; Department of Epidemiology (B.D.J., W.E.), Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh; Allegheny General Hospital (D.A.V.), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; University of Alabama at Birmingham (V.B.), Birmingham, Alabama; Department of Health Behavior and Health Education (C.E.C.), University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas; and Division of Cardiology (C.J.P., E.H.), Department of Medicine, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to David S. Krantz, PhD, Department of Medical and Clinical Psychology, Uniformed Services University, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda MD, 20814. E-mail: [email protected]
This work was supported by contracts from the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (nos. N01-HV-68161, N01-HV-68162, N01-HV-68163, and N01-HV-68164); Grants U0164829, U01 HL649141, U01 HL649241, T32HL69751, and BETRHEART 5RO1HL085730; and grants from the Gustavus and Louis Pfeiffer Research Foundation, Danville, New Jersey; the Women’s Guild of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; the Ladies Hospital Aid Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; QMED, Inc, Laurence Harbor, New Jersey; the Edythe L. Broad Women’s Heart Research Fellowship, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California; and the Barbra Streisand Women’s Cardiovascular Research and Education Program, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.
Received for publication January 24, 2011; revision received November 3, 2011.
