JOINT RISKS IN A CASE-CONTROL STUDY OF ESOPHAGEAL CANCER IN SHANXI PROVINCE, PEOPLES-REPUBLIC-OF-CHINA

Authors
WEN S XIAO YH YA PW YU YW YAO WZ SASABA T HOSHIYAMA Y TAGASHIRA Y
Citation
S. Wen et al., JOINT RISKS IN A CASE-CONTROL STUDY OF ESOPHAGEAL CANCER IN SHANXI PROVINCE, PEOPLES-REPUBLIC-OF-CHINA, Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine, 174(2), 1994, pp. 177-180
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Medicine, Research & Experimental
Journal title
Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
00408727
Volume
174
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
177 - 180
Database
ISI
SICI code
0040-8727(1994)174:2<177:JRIACS>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
A multifactorial analysis on the etiology of esophageal cancer was con ducted based on a case-control study conducted in Shanxi. The study an alyzed the data of 326 cases and 396 controls. The joint risks of two factors mere calculated from dichotomous distributions. Three models o f factor combinations were assessed: (1) two risk-enhancing factors, ( 2) two risk-reducing factors, and (3) a risk-enhancing and a risk-redu cing factor. The observed joint risks were in the neighborhood of the multiplicative products of single acting risks of individual factors; This was a uniform pattern across three models.