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Non-Smoking Wives of Heavy Smokers Have A Higher Risk of Lung Cancer

Date: 1981
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Hirayama, T.
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2023512516/2023513116/Ets: Lung Cancer Volume I 930900
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SCIENTIFIC AFFAIRS/BLACK LATERAL OLD S&T
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ABST, ABSTRACT
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2023512517/3115
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Hirayama, T.
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British Medical Journal
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R529
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24 May 1999
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Hirayama, T., "'Non-Smoking Wives of Heavy Smokers Have a Higher Risk of Lung Cancer: A Study from Japan," British Medical Journal I, 282: 183-185, 1981. As part of Hirayama's longitudinal record'-linkage study, 91,540 non-smoking wives aged 40 and above in 29! Japanese health center districts were followed for 14 years (1966-79). Death: certificates were used to assess cause of death. Relative risks of 1.61 (for husband~being an exsmoker or smoking 1-19 cigarettes/day)' and 2.08 (for husband smoking 20 or more cigarettes/day) were presented without confidence intervals. The author claims that wives of heavy smokers had a higher risk of lung cancer and that his data support a dose-response relationship. He also claims that a similar pattern was evident when the data; were analyzed by age and occupation of the husband, with higher risks in agricultural families with husbands aged 40-59. The inclusion of agricultural families was designed to address the possible effect of "urban factors" thought to influence lung cancer incidence.

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