Long-term trends of liver cancer mortality by gender in urban and rural areas in China: an age-period-cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To provide an up-to-date overview of long-term trends of liver cancer mortality and evaluate the effects attributable to age, period and cohort in Chinese population stratified by gender and urban/rural areas.

Methods

Population and liver cancer mortality data were obtained based on the Disease Surveillance Points in China from 1991 to 2014. To examine the time trends of liver cancer mortality by gender in urban and rural areas in China, Joinpoint analysis was used to estimate the annual per cent change. The intrinsic estimator, a method of age-period-cohort analysis to estimate age, period and cohort effects simultaneously, was used to analyse the underlying mechanisms for liver cancer mortality trends in the aforementioned four groups.

Results

We observed

SUBMITTER: Sun Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5829896 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature