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16596648

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
2006-8-21
pubmed:abstractText
An innovative population-based case-control study was conducted in a national mortality survey to assess the hazards of tobacco use on esophageal cancer among Chinese men. Cases were 19,734 males aged 35 years or older, who died of esophageal cancer during 1986-1988. Controls were 104,846 male living spouses of the same age when their wife died (of any cause) during the same period in the same county or city. The absolute esophageal cancer death rates were higher in smokers than those in nonsmokers in all geographical groups. The relative risks for esophageal cancer were 1.88 (95% CI: 1.73-2.05) and 1.39 (95% CI: 1.28-1.50) in urban and rural men, respectively, after adjustment for other relevant covariates including age group (5 years) and locality. When the calculation was restricted to men aged 35-69, the risk ratios for current cigarette smokers increased significantly with increasing number of cigarettes smoked daily and duration of smoking. Tobacco use, in any form, is an important risk factor for esophageal cancer in Chinese men. Selecting living spouses as controls is a unique and useful approach in the design of case-control studies of cigarette smoking.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0020-7136
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
15
pubmed:volume
119
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1427-32
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-7-24
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2006
pubmed:articleTitle
Smoking and mortality from esophageal cancer in China: a large case-control study of 19,734 male esophageal cancer deaths and 104,846 living spouse controls.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Institute of Basic Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, People's Republic of China.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't