Smoking behavior and lung cancer in a biracial cohort: the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

In the U.S., the incidence of lung cancer varies by race, with rates being highest among black men. There are marked differences in smoking behavior between blacks and whites, but little is known regarding how these differences contribute to the racial disparities in lung cancer.

Purpose

To compare the lung cancer risk associated with smoking in 14,610 blacks and whites in the prospective cohort Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities study.

Methods

Smoking characteristics were ascertained at baseline and three follow-up visits in 1990-1992, 1993-1995, and 1996-1998 (response rates were 93%, 86%, and 80%, respectively), as well as from annual telephone interviews. Data were analyzed in the fall of 2012. Multivariable-adjusted proportional hazards models were us

SUBMITTER: Prizment AE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4030495 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature