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Psychological characteristics and fatal ischaemic heart disease
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- Published on: 9 January 2022
- Published on: 9 January 2022
- Published on: 9 January 2022Psychological characteristics and heart diseaseShow More
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Haines and colleagues present a further example from observational epidemiology of an association between a psychosocial factor and cardiovascular health (1). They suggest that this association is likely to be causal - a suggestion apparently accepted by the popular press in their reporting of this research (2).
However, given the non-specificity of the association between a range of such factor...
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None declared. - Published on: 9 January 2022Re: Psychological characteristics and heart diseaseMacleod and Davey Smith suggest that the association that we found between psychological characteristics, particularly obsessionality and the somatic symptoms of anxiety on the one hand and fatal IHD on the other [1] were due to confounding by socio-economic factors. They suggest that we should have shown estimates before and after adjustment for social class.Show More
We did discuss the adjustment for social class in the paper and p...
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