Pollution and regional variations of lung cancer mortality in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

The aims of this study were to identify counties in the United States (US) with high rates of lung cancer mortality, and to characterize the associated community-level factors while focusing on particulate-matter pollution.

Methods

We performed a descriptive analysis of lung cancer deaths in the US from 2004 through 2014. We categorized counties as "clustered" or "non-clustered" - based on whether or not they had high lung cancer mortality rates - using novel geospatial autocorrelation methods. We contrasted community characteristics between cluster categories. We performed logistic regression for the association between cluster category and particulate-matter pollution.

Results

Among 362 counties (11.6%) categorized as clustered, the age-adjusted lung ca

SUBMITTER: Moore JX 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5553699 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature