Comparative study of control selection in a national population -based case-control study: Estimating risk of smoking on cancer deaths in Chinese men

International Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 329-337

  Jiang, Jingmei ^a   Liu, Boqi ^a   Nasca, Philip C ^b   Han, Wei ^a   Zou, Xiaonong ^a   Zeng, Xianjia ^a   Tian, Xiaobing ^a   Wu, Yanping ^a   Zhao, Ping ^a   Li, Junyao ^a  

^a PEKING UNION MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Case control studies; Chinese men; Comparative study; Epidemiologic methods; Smoking

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHINA; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; POPULATION RESEARCH; RISK ASSESSMENT; RURAL AREA; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPOUSE; URBAN AREA; VALIDATION STUDY;

EID: 74549197588     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14491907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7150/ijms.6.329     Document Type: Article

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