Is Low IQ Related to Risk of Death by Homicide? Testing a Hypothesis Using Data from the Vietnam Experience Study

Overview

Journal Psychiatry Res

Specialty Psychiatry

Date 2008 Aug 23

PMID 18718672

Citations 8

Authors

George David Batty

Laust H Mortensen

Catharine R Gale

Ian J Deary

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Abstract

Lower IQ test scores are related to an increased risk of violent assault. We tested the relation between IQ and death by homicide. In a prospective cohort study of 14,537 men (21 homicides), the association between lower IQ and an increased risk of homicide was lost after multiple adjustment.

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