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In the 1959 study in which Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman introduced the Type-A man to the world, they re- ported that men who have a sense of ur- gency about time and who are inclined to be competitive and hostile, are twice as likely to have a heart attack. Following up on that, Levine and his colleagues exam- ined the rates of death from ischemic heart disease (a decreased flow of blood to the heart) for their 36 cities. After adjusting for the median age of each city's popula-...