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Saturday, June 10, 2006

Personality, lifestyle and risk

People's belief that the onset and progress of disease is caused by their behaviour may be linked to a reduced risk of myocardial infarction but not of stroke and cancer. High "time urgency" may be associated with a reduced risk of cancer but not of cardiovascular disease. Stürmer and colleagues (p 1359) analysed the presence of chronic diseases in more than 5000 adults 7-10 years after those people had completed a questionnaire on psychological traits, lifestyle, and comorbidity. Most personality traits that were assessed did not have a major impact on incidence and mortality from cardiovascular disease or cancer.

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Personality, lifestyle, and risk of cardiovascular disease and cancer: follow-up of population based cohort
Til Stürmer, Petra Hasselbach, and Manfred Amelang
BMJ 2006 332: 1359. [Abstract] [Full Text]

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