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Genetics and behavioral medicine: risk factors for cardiovascular disease
G P Vogler1, G E McClearn, H Snieder
1Department of Biobehavioral Health, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, USA.
Behavioral Medicine (Washington, D.C.)
|January 1, 1997
Abstract:
This is the second in a series of three articles addressing the intersection of interests in behavioral genetics and behavioral medicine. In this article, we use risk factors for cardiovascular disease as a prototypical trait for which behavioral genetic approaches provide powerful tools for understanding how risk factors, behavior, and health outcomes are related. The approach synthesizes a number of methods and areas of interest in an attempt to arrive at a comprehensive, whole-organism understanding of health-related risk factors and their response to behavioral interventions.