IQ in late adolescence/early adulthood, risk factors in middle age, and later cancer mortality in men: the Vietnam Experience Study

G David Batty; Laust Hvas Mortensen; Catharine R Gale; Martin J Shipley; Beverly A Roberts; Ian J Deary

doi:10.1002/pon.1521

IQ in late adolescence/early adulthood, risk factors in middle age, and later cancer mortality in men: the Vietnam Experience Study

G David Batty, Laust Hvas Mortensen, Catharine R Gale, Martin J Shipley, Beverly A Roberts, Ian J Deary

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Abstract

(i) examine the relation, if any, of pre-morbid IQ scores at 20 years of age with the risk of later cancer mortality; and (ii) explore the role, if any, of potential mediating factors (e.g. smoking, obesity), assessed in middle age, in explaining the IQ-cancer relation.

Original language	English
Journal	Psycho-Oncology
Volume	18
Issue number	10
Pages (from-to)	1122-6
Number of pages	5
ISSN	1057-9249
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/pon.1521
Publication status	Published - 2009

Keywords

Adolescent
Adult
Age Factors
Cohort Studies
Confidence Intervals
Humans
Intelligence
Male
Middle Aged
Neoplasms
Proportional Hazards Models
Risk Factors
Vietnam
Wechsler Scales
Young Adult

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