RETRACTED ARTICLE: Personality, stress, smoking, and genetic predisposition as synergistic risk factors for cancer and coronary heart disease
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Risk factors for cancer have been found in the past to act synergistically in a number of studies. However, these studies were not always designed to test the hypothesis of synergism, and have sometimes failed to equate for important variables, which might influence the results. The present study tests the hypothesis that psychosocial variables and physical ones (personality/stress, smoking, and genetic predisposition) interact in a synergistic fashion in the causation of lung cancer and coronary heart disease (CHD).
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More Extraverted people appear susceptible to smoking, regardless of whether older or new operationalizations of Extraversion are used.
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- Authors
- Eysenck, H. J., Grossarth-Maticek, R., & Everitt, B.
- Affiliations
- University of London (GB)
- ORCID
- Everitt, B.
- Venue
- Integrative Physiological and Behavioral Science
- Published
- 1991-10
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 309-322
- ISSN
- 1932-4502 (ISSN-L)
- 1053-881X
- 1936-3567
- OpenAlex
- W2069205277
- Cited by
- 44
- References
- 43
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- 2024: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 3 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 1 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 1 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 2.20
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Status
- Retracted
- Update notices
- retraction (2021-04-13)
- Open access
- closed
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- Integrative Psychological and Behavioral Science (publishedVersion)
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- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Cardiac Health and Mental Health
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Smoking Behavior and Cessation
- Keywords
- synergistic risk factors, personality, psychological stress, smoking, genetic susceptibility, lung cancer, coronary artery disease, psychosocial risk factors, cancer risk
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Coronary Disease, Humans, Hypertension, Male, Middle Aged, Neoplasms, Personality Development, Risk Factors, Smoking, Stress, Psychological, Type A Personality, Logistic Models
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