Socioeconomic position and lung cancer risk: How important is the modeling of smoking?

Epidemiology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 377-385

  Matukala Nkosi, Thomas ^a,b   Parent, Marie Élise ^a,b,c   Siemiatycki, Jack ^a,b,c   Rousseau, Marie Claude ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE L UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANADA; CANCER RISK; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL STATUS;

ADULT; AGED; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; ODDS RATIO; QUEBEC; RISK FACTORS; SMOKING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84859640744     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0b013e31824d0548     Document Type: Article

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