Aspirin Use and Reduced Risk of Pancreatic Cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Few options besides the avoidance of smoking and obesity are available to prevent pancreatic cancer. The association between aspirin use and risk of pancreatic cancer has been inconsistent across studies.

Methods

We performed a population-based study of 761 case and 794 control subjects frequency matched on sex and age during 2006 to 2011 in Shanghai, China. Participants were asked about episodes of regular use of aspirin, tablets per day or week, and ages that the use started and stopped. Data were analyzed by unconditional logistic regression, with adjustments for age, sex, education, body mass index, years of cigarette smoking, cigarettes smoked per day, Helicobacter pylori CagA seropositivity, ABO blood group, and history of diabetes mellitus. Meta-regression

SUBMITTER: Risch HA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5225096 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature