High risk of lymphomas in children of Asian origin: ethnicity or confounding by socioeconomic status?

To examine the role of ethnic origin as a risk factor for paediatric lymphoma, a cancer registry-based analysis was undertaken in Yorkshire, UK. Children of Asian ethnic origin were found to have an odds ratio for lymphomas of 1.60 (CI 0.98-2.62), after adjusting for age and sex. After adjusting als...

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Autores principales: Varghese, C., Barrett, J. H., Johnston, C., Shires, M., Rider, L., Forman, D.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 1996
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2074790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8912553
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author Varghese, C.
Barrett, J. H.
Johnston, C.
Shires, M.
Rider, L.
Forman, D.
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description To examine the role of ethnic origin as a risk factor for paediatric lymphoma, a cancer registry-based analysis was undertaken in Yorkshire, UK. Children of Asian ethnic origin were found to have an odds ratio for lymphomas of 1.60 (CI 0.98-2.62), after adjusting for age and sex. After adjusting also for 'super profile group' as an indicator of socioeconomic status, the estimate became 1.99 (CI 1.08-3.68). Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas were analysed separately with similar results. Super profile group is an area-based measure and may not reflect the individual variation in living standards, especially among the Asian immigrants. Our results indicate that socioeconomic status does not confound the relationship between lymphomas and ethnic origin. However, there is a need for studies of ethnicity that include indicators of individual living standards or socioeconomic status.
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spelling pubmed-20747902009-09-10 High risk of lymphomas in children of Asian origin: ethnicity or confounding by socioeconomic status? Varghese, C. Barrett, J. H. Johnston, C. Shires, M. Rider, L. Forman, D. Br J Cancer Research Article To examine the role of ethnic origin as a risk factor for paediatric lymphoma, a cancer registry-based analysis was undertaken in Yorkshire, UK. Children of Asian ethnic origin were found to have an odds ratio for lymphomas of 1.60 (CI 0.98-2.62), after adjusting for age and sex. After adjusting also for 'super profile group' as an indicator of socioeconomic status, the estimate became 1.99 (CI 1.08-3.68). Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas were analysed separately with similar results. Super profile group is an area-based measure and may not reflect the individual variation in living standards, especially among the Asian immigrants. Our results indicate that socioeconomic status does not confound the relationship between lymphomas and ethnic origin. However, there is a need for studies of ethnicity that include indicators of individual living standards or socioeconomic status. Nature Publishing Group 1996-11 /pmc/articles/PMC2074790/ /pubmed/8912553 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/.
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title_fullStr High risk of lymphomas in children of Asian origin: ethnicity or confounding by socioeconomic status?
title_full_unstemmed High risk of lymphomas in children of Asian origin: ethnicity or confounding by socioeconomic status?
title_short High risk of lymphomas in children of Asian origin: ethnicity or confounding by socioeconomic status?
title_sort high risk of lymphomas in children of asian origin: ethnicity or confounding by socioeconomic status?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2074790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8912553
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