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Poor housing in childhood and high rates of stomach cancer in England and Wales.
In a search for aetiological processes which might explain the association of stomach cancer with poverty, we have related mortality from the disease in the local authority areas of England and Wales during 1968-78 to indices of living standards derived from the 1971, 1951 and 1931 censuses. We have...
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author | Barker, D. J. Coggon, D. Osmond, C. Wickham, C. |
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description | In a search for aetiological processes which might explain the association of stomach cancer with poverty, we have related mortality from the disease in the local authority areas of England and Wales during 1968-78 to indices of living standards derived from the 1971, 1951 and 1931 censuses. We have also analysed recently released data from a national survey of overcrowding carried out in 1936. Geographical differences in stomach cancer were most closely related to occupationally derived indices of socio-economic structure from the 1971 census, and to measures of domestic crowding from the 1931 census and 1936 survey. Unlike other indices of poor living standards, levels of past domestic crowding in north-west Wales were consistent with its previously unexplained high death rates from stomach cancer. We conclude that overcrowding in the home during childhood may be a major determinant of stomach cancer, and might act by promoting the transmission of causative organisms. |
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spelling | pubmed-19713792009-09-10 Poor housing in childhood and high rates of stomach cancer in England and Wales. Barker, D. J. Coggon, D. Osmond, C. Wickham, C. Br J Cancer Research Article In a search for aetiological processes which might explain the association of stomach cancer with poverty, we have related mortality from the disease in the local authority areas of England and Wales during 1968-78 to indices of living standards derived from the 1971, 1951 and 1931 censuses. We have also analysed recently released data from a national survey of overcrowding carried out in 1936. Geographical differences in stomach cancer were most closely related to occupationally derived indices of socio-economic structure from the 1971 census, and to measures of domestic crowding from the 1931 census and 1936 survey. Unlike other indices of poor living standards, levels of past domestic crowding in north-west Wales were consistent with its previously unexplained high death rates from stomach cancer. We conclude that overcrowding in the home during childhood may be a major determinant of stomach cancer, and might act by promoting the transmission of causative organisms. Nature Publishing Group 1990-04 /pmc/articles/PMC1971379/ /pubmed/2331444 Text en https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Barker, D. J. Coggon, D. Osmond, C. Wickham, C. Poor housing in childhood and high rates of stomach cancer in England and Wales. |
title | Poor housing in childhood and high rates of stomach cancer in England and Wales. |
title_full | Poor housing in childhood and high rates of stomach cancer in England and Wales. |
title_fullStr | Poor housing in childhood and high rates of stomach cancer in England and Wales. |
title_full_unstemmed | Poor housing in childhood and high rates of stomach cancer in England and Wales. |
title_short | Poor housing in childhood and high rates of stomach cancer in England and Wales. |
title_sort | poor housing in childhood and high rates of stomach cancer in england and wales. |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1971379/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2331444 |
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