ArticleAmerican journal of public health2012
Type A behavior pattern and coronary heart disease: Philip Morris's "crown jewel".
Article in American journal of public health, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Evaluation of Dietary Habits, Type A Behavior Pattern and Its Relationship with Oral Health Status in Dental Undergraduate Students: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of clinical medicine · 2022Article
- Manufacturing doubt: Assessing the effects of independent vs industry-sponsored messaging about the harms of fossil fuels, smoking, alcohol, and sugar sweetened beverages.SSM - population health · 2022Article
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- Prevalence of beliefs about actual and mythical causes of cancer and their association with socio-demographic and health-related characteristics: Findings from a cross-sectional survey in England.European journal of cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) · 2018Article
- The Influence of Industry Sponsorship on the Research Agenda: A Scoping Review.American journal of public health · 2018Article
- Revisiting the Corporate and Commercial Determinants of Health.American journal of public health · 2018Article
- 'Nothing can be done until everything is done': the use of complexity arguments by food, beverage, alcohol and gambling industries.Journal of epidemiology and community health · 2017Article
- Comparison of the CBA-H and SF-36 for the screening of the psychological and behavioural variables in chronic dialysis patients.PloS one · 2017Article
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- "Fighting a hurricane": tobacco industry efforts to counter the perceived threat of Islam.American journal of public health · 2015Review
- Type A behavior pattern is not a predictor of premature mortality.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2015Article
- Comment on "Short-term effects of relaxation music on patients suffering from primary open-angle glaucoma".Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2015Article
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Abstract
The type A behavior pattern (TABP) was described in the 1950s by cardiologists Meyer Friedman and Ray Rosenman, who argued that TABP was an important risk factor for coronary heart disease. This theory was supported by positive findings from the Western Collaborative Group Study and the Framingham Study. We analyzed tobacco industry documents to show that the tobacco industry was a major funder of TABP research, with selected results used to counter concerns regarding tobacco and health. Our findings also help explain inconsistencies in the findings of epidemiological studies of TABP, in particular the phenomenon of initially promising results followed by negative findings. Our analysis suggests that these "decline effects" are partly explained by tobacco industry involvement in TABP research.
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