Birth order, as a proxy for age at infection, in the etiology of hepatocellular carcinoma

Epidemiology

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 680-683

  Kuper, Hannah ^a   Hsieh, Chung Cheng ^a,b   Stuver, Sherri O ^a   Mucci, Lorelei A ^a   Tzonou, Anastasia ^c   Zavitsanos, Xenophon ^c   Lagiou, Pagona ^a,c   Trichopoulos, Dimitrios ^a,c  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Birth order; Case control study; Etiology; Hepatitis B virus; Hepatocellular carcinoma; Liver neoplasms

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS B SURFACE ANTIGEN;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ARTICLE; BIRTH ORDER; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; LIVER CELL CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BIRTH ORDER; CARCINOMA, HEPATOCELLULAR; CARRIER STATE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; GREECE; HEPACIVIRUS; HEPATITIS B VIRUS; HUMANS; LIVER NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; SMOKING;

EID: 0033785549     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001648-200011000-00011     Document Type: Article

References (15)

1. Age at establishment of Helicobacter pylori infection and gastric carcinoma, gastric ulcer, and duodenal ulcer risk
2. Environmental risk factors for subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE)
3. Birth order and risk of testicular cancer
4. Birth order, sibship size and risk of Hodgkin's disease in children and young adults: A population-based study of 31 million person-years
5. Age at first establishment of chronic hepatitis B virus infection and hepatocellular carcinoma risk: A birth order study
6. Persistent hepatitis B virus infection and hepatoma in The Gambia, west Africa: A case-control study of 140 adults and their 603 family contacts
7. A prospective multicenter study of hepatocellular carcinoma in Italian hemophiliacs with chronic hepatitis C. The Study Group of the Association of Italian Hemophilia Centers
8. Hepatitis B and C viruses in the etiology of hepatocellular carcinoma: A study in Greece using third-generation assays
9. Tobacco smoking, alcohol consumption and their interaction in the causation of hepatocellular carcinoma
10. Transplacental transmission of hepatitis-B virus by symptom-free chronic carrier mothers
11. Geographic variation in viral load among hepatitis B carriers with differing risks of hepatocellular carcinoma