Coffee-drinking and personality as factors in the genesis of cancer and coronary heart disease.
A study of the prediction of cancer and coronary heart disease on the basis of coffee consumption and personality shows that in cancer-prone probands (diagnosed on the basis of a personality inventory) coffee consumption was related to low incidence of cancer and high incidence of coronary heart disease, while diazepam showed the opposite trend. In coronary heart disease-prone probands coffee drinking was also linked with low incidence of cancer and high incidence of coronary heart disease, with diazepam again showing the opposite trend. In a personality type not prone to either disease, neither coffee consumption nor diazepam was linked with death from cancer or coronary heart disease. It is suggested that personality interacts in a predictable way with coffee and diazepam to determine in part the likelihood of death from cancer or coronary heart disease. Imipramine acts in a fashion similar to coffee, and opposite to diazepam.
Grossarth-Maticek
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Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, UK.
Eysenck
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D003069:Coffee; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000401:mortality / Q000523:psychology*; D003975:Diazepam / Q000494:pharmacology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007099:Imipramine / Q000494:pharmacology; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality
D003069:Coffee; D007099:Imipramine; D003975:Diazepam