Cohort Analysis of Lung Cancer in the Netherlands
A cohort analysis of lung cancer mortality in the Netherlands from 1936–1974 is presented. Apart from small corrections, age-specific lung cancer mortality rates can be expressed as the product of a cohort (generation) factor and an age factor. The cohort factors increase until the 1930 birth cohort, after which there is a rapid decline. The age-risk factors increase smoothly with age. Age-specific incidence curves of past and future years will follow the curve of the age-risk factors provided that the cohort-risk factors are unchanging. The method can be applied to other chronic diseases.
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Dokumenttyp: | TEXT |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 1979 |
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Oxford University Press
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Schlagwörter: | Original Articles |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-26807034 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://ije.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/short/8/1/41 |