Open AccessSocial Integration, Marital Status, and Ovarian Cancer Risk: A 20-Year Prospective Cohort Study
Author(s) -
Claudia TrudelFitzgerald,
Elizabeth M. Poole,
Anil K. Sood,
Olivia I. Okereke,
Ichiro Kawachi,
Laura D. Kubzansky,
Shelley S. Tworoger
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
psychosomatic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.62
H-Index - 187
eISSN - 1534-7796
pISSN - 0033-3174
DOI - 10.1097/psy.0000000000000747
Subject(s) - psychosocial , hazard ratio , medicine , marital status , proportional hazards model , demography , confounding , prospective cohort study , social support , population , cohort study , gerontology , confidence interval , psychology , psychiatry , environmental health , psychotherapist , sociology
Low social integration and divorce/widowhood are chronic psychosocial stressors that may affect health. When assessed after cancer diagnosis, they have been associated with poorer survival, but their role in cancer development, particularly ovarian cancer (OvCA), is less understood. We investigated whether social integration and marital status were related to OvCA risk in a large population-based study.