| Description | Eysenck (psychiatry, U. of London) argues that personality and reaction to stress are much more predictive of cancer and coronary heart disease than are the popularly attributed risk factors of smoking, cholesterol level and blood pressure, and are much more amenable to treatment. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
It is often suggested that the incidence of cancer and coronary heart disease could be much reduced or even eliminated if only people would stop smoking cigarettes and eat fewer high-cholesterol foods. The evidence, however, shows that such views are simplistic and unrealistic and that, instead, cancer and CHD are the product of many risk factors acting synergistically. Psychosocial factors (stress, personality) are six times as predictive as smoking, cholesterol level or blood pressure and much... |
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