Hostility and the Metabolic Syndrome in Older Males: The Normative Aging Study
Raymond Niaura, PhD,
Sara M. Banks, PhD,
Kenneth D. Ward, PhD,
Catherine M. Stoney, PhD,
Avron Spiro, III, PhD,
Carolyn M. Aldwin, PhD,
Lewis Landsberg, MD and
Scott. T. Weiss, MD
From the Brown University School of Medicine (R.N., S.M.B.), Providence, RI; University of Memphis Prevention Center (K.D.W.), Memphis, TN; Department of Psychology, Ohio State University (C.M.S.), Columbus, OH; Normative Aging Study, Boston VA Outpatient Clinic, and Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Boston University School of Public Health (A.S.), Boston, MA; Department of Applied Behavioral Sciences, University of California at Davis (C.M.A.), Davis, CA; Department of Medicine, Evans Memorial Hospital, Northwestern University School of Medicine (L.L.), Northbrook, IL; and The Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Womens Hospital and Harvard Medical School (S.T.W.), Boston, MA.

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Fig. 1. Path model illustrating relationships among hostility (HO), BMI, WHR, insulin (INS), blood pressure, and lipids. *p < .05 for standardized path coefficients. Error terms are omitted for ease of presentation.
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