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- Title
Psychology and survival.
- Authors
Phillips, D P; Ruth, T E; Wagner, L M
- Abstract
We examined the deaths of 28,169 adult Chinese-Americans, and 412,632 randomly selected, matched controls coded "white" on the death certificate. Chinese-Americans, but not whites, die significantly earlier than normal (1.3-4.9 yr) if they have a combination of disease and birthyear which Chinese astrology and medicine consider ill-fated. The more strongly a group is attached to Chinese traditions, the more years of life are lost. Our results hold for nearly all major causes of death studied. The reduction in survival cannot be completely explained by a change in the behaviour of the Chinese patient, doctor, or death-registrar, but seems to result at least partly from psychosomatic processes.
- Publication
Lancet (London, England), 1993, Vol 342, Issue 8880, p1142
- ISSN
0140-6736
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1016/0140-6736(93)92124-c