Are associations between psychosocial stressors and incident lung cancer attributable to smoking?

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To learn whether reported associations between major psychosocial stressors and lung cancer are independent of smoking history.

Methods

Subjects were at least 25 years old and without lung cancer at enrollment in the United States Census Bureau's National Longitudinal Mortality Survey in 1995-2008. Follow-up via Surveillance Epidemiology and End Results and National Death Index continued until lung cancer diagnosis, death, or December 2011. Involuntary unemployment, widowhood, and divorce, stratified by sex, were tested for association with subsequent lung cancer using proportional hazards regression for competing risks. Smoking status, years smoked, cigarettes per day, and years since quitting were imputed when missing.

Results

At enrollment, subjects (n = 10

SUBMITTER: Behrendt CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6586400 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature