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Date:8/18/2007

and lipids were taken at one point in time, she said. In other words, we asked people about their coping strategies in response to a problem in the past month and looked at a blood sample taken at the time we asked them. It is possible that changes in LDL might have been apparent in a lab setting or if we had looked at longitudinal relationships among hostility, coping and lipids.

Another caveat they noted was that the sample was limited and it is likely that there are age, gender or ethnic differences in the relationship between coping mechanisms and lipoproteins.

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Contact: Pam Willenz public.affairs@apa.org 202-336-5700 American Psychological Association Source:Eurekalert

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