The aims of this study are to confirm the association between psychological distress and coronary heart disease (CHD) using an epidemiological community study with hospital admissions data and to examine if any association is explained by existing illness.
Department of Psychiatry, Institute of Community Health Sciences, Barts and the London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London, Mile End Road, London E1 4NS, UK. F.R.Rasul@qmul.ac.uk
