Socioeconomic differences in the risk of childhood central nervous system tumors in Denmark: a nationwide register-based case-control study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Differences in the risk of childhood central nervous system (CNS) tumors by socioeconomic status (SES) may enhance etiologic insights. We conducted a nationwide register-based case-control study to evaluate socioeconomic differences in the risk of childhood CNS tumors in Denmark and examined whether associations varied by different SES measures, time points of assessment, specific tumor types, and age at diagnosis.

Methods

We identified all children born between 1981 and 2013 and diagnosed with a CNS tumor at ages 0-19 years (n = 1,273) from the Danish Cancer Registry and sampled four individually matched controls per case (n  = 5,086). We used conditional logistic regression models to estimate associations with individual-level and neighborhood-level socioeconomic m

SUBMITTER: Erdmann F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7458950 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature