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From the Behavioral Medicine Research Center and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences (B.H.B., J.C.B., I.C.S., R.B.W.), Duke University Medical Center; the Outcomes Research and Assessment Group, Duke Clinical Research Institute (D.B.M., N.E.C.-C., B.L.L.), Duke University Medical Center; and Health Services Research and Development (H.B.B.), Durham Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina.

View larger version (41K): [in a new window]   Fig. 1. Adjusted risk of cardiac death associated with network size (N = 430, number of events = 120). Analyses were adjusted for number of diseased vessels, left ventricular ejection fraction, presence or absence of congestive heart failure, age, and comorbidity.