Items for "population attributable risk"

Interaction Effects and Population-attributable Risks for Smoking and Alcohol on Laryngeal Cancer and Its Subsites. A Case-control Study from Germany

OBJECTIVES: To assess the joint effect of smoking and alcohol consumption on laryngeal risk on tumor subsites. METHODS: Population-based case-control study in South-West Germany with 257 histologically confirmed cases (236 males, 21 females), age 37 to 80 years, and 769 population controls (702 males, 67 females), 1:3 frequency matched by age and sex. RESULTS: Half of the tumors (50.6%) were glottic or subglottic, 17.5% were supraglottic...

Keywords: Case-control studies, laryngeal cancer, tobacco and alcohol consumption, Interaction, population attributable risk