As clinicians delivering health care, we are very good at treating disease but often not as
good at treating the person. The focus of our attention has been on the specific physical …

Facets of positive psychological well-being, such as optimism, have been identified as
positive health assets because they are prospectively associated with the 7 metrics of …

Recent findings have deeply changed the current view of coronary heart disease, going
beyond the simplistic model of atherosclerosis as a passive process involving cholesterol …

Dispositional optimism is the generalized, relatively stable tendency to expect good
outcomes across important life domains. This article provides a representative review of 30 …

Importance Optimism and pessimism can be easily measured and are potentially modifiable
mindsets that may be associated with cardiovascular risk and all-cause mortality. Objective …

Obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI)! 30 related to excess fat storage. Class I
obesity is defined as a BMI 30–34.9, class II obesity as a BMI 35.0–39.9, and class III obesity …

A paradigm shift in public health and medicine has broadened the field from a singular focus
on the ill effects of negative states and psychopathology to an expanded view that examines …

Growing evidence has linked positive psychological attributes like optimism to a lower risk of
poor health outcomes, especially cardiovascular disease. It has been demonstrated in …

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) remains a leading cause of death worldwide and
identification and therapeutic modulation of all its risk factors is necessary to ensure a lower …

Prior research has related dispositional optimism to physical health. Traditionally,
dispositional optimism is treated as a bipolar construct, anchored at one end by optimism …