01691nas a2200229   4500000000100000008004100001260007600042653001000118653001400128653001600142653002600158653002700184100001900211700002100230700002000251245006700271300001200338490000600350520107700356022001401433020001401447       1998                            d  c07/1998bSociedad Española para el Estudio de la Ansiedad y el Estrés10aAnger10aHostility10aCholesterol10aBuss-Durkee Inventory10aCoronary heart disease1 aFernando Calvo1 aSalvador Alemán1 aBenedicta Ojeda00aRelationship between hostility and the serum total cholesterol  a311-3300 v43 aAfter the problems emerged with the Type A Behavior Pattern (TABP) as a predictor of Coronary Heart Disease (CHD), the angerhostility complex, an integrating part of said standard, emerged as the real risk factor of CHD. The anger-hostility complex is a multidimensional construct whose relationships to CHD are not fully clarified. The present work has intended to deepen in that address, studying the relationship between the hostility and the serum total cholesterol, as one of the possible explanatory mechanisms of its connection with the CHD. In the present work have been found meaningful differences (p < 0.05) in the total serum cholesterol level between the groups of subjects with high and low Expressed Hostility, such that these last present the higher levels of cholesterol. They were not found differences in relationship to Neurotic Hostility. These results support previous reports. Also it has been possible to discriminate perfectly between subjects with high and low levels of total cholesterol in base the items of the Buss-Durkee Hostility Inventory.  a1134-7937  a2174-0437