Association between population prevalence of smoking and incidence of meningococcal disease in Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands between 1975 and 2009: A population-based time series analysis

Objective: To investigate the relationship between the prevalence of smoking in the population and incidence of invasive meningococcal disease (IMD) among children under 5 years of age. Design: Retrospective, longitudinal, observational study. Poisson regression controlled for confounding factors. Setting: Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands between 1975 and 2009. Population: Total population of approximately 35 million people in these four countries. Data sources: Data were collected from the Ministries of Health, National Statistics Bureaus and other relevant national institutes. Res... Mehr ...