Childhood trauma increases risk of developing lung cancer
Childhood trauma increases the risk of developing lung cancer and die prematurely from this cause in adulthood, according to research conducted by scientists from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta (USA) and published in “BMC Public Health.”
The team led by David Brown and Robert Anda, studied the impact they might have on the health of a child abuse – both emotional and physical or sexual abuse – domestic violence, separation from parents or growing up in a home with people with mental illness are drug addicts or in prison.
To do this, they collected information about these traumas of more than 17,000 people between 1995 and 1997. In parallel, followed by the medical developments of this sample to study the rates of lung cancer than were in 2005.
According to Brown, “childhood trauma were associated with an increased risk of lung cancer and premature death from this cause. While smoking, including the early start this habit and consumption of many cigarettes a day, weight with most risk in this situation other mechanisms may be involved and psychological problems ”
“Compared with children who had no childhood trauma, people with six or more traumas were multiplied by three your chances of getting lung cancer,” said Brown, noting that “people who developed or died of lung cancer, those with six or more trauma centers were approximately 13 years younger when they did the disease than those who had no trauma. ”
For its authors, the key finding of this study is that children may have to face situations that generate a high level of stress, a feeling associated with destructive behaviors such as smoking that can lead to the emergence of diseases such as cancer lung and perhaps death at an early age. Thus, reducing the amount of trauma suffered by children could be considered, in social and health programs as a way to prevent lung cancer and other smoking related diseases.