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Cancer in people with depression or anxiety: record-linkage study.
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BACKGROUND: It has been suggested that the risk of cancer may be higher in people with psychological disorders, like depression and anxiety, than in the general population. AIMS: To determine cancer risk in cohorts of people with depression or anxiety, compared with that in a control cohort. METHOD: Analysis of linked statistical records of hospital admission and mortality. RESULTS: Lung cancer was more common in those with depression (risk ratio 1.36, 95% confidence intervals 1.19-1.54) or ...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Journal:
- Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
- Volume:
- 42
- Issue:
- 9
- Pages:
- 683-689
- Publication date:
- 2007-09-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1433-9285
- ISSN:
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0933-7954
- Source identifiers:
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33865
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- English
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- Pubs id:
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pubs:33865
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- pubs:33865
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- 2012-12-19
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- 2007
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