Malaria and risk of lymphoid neoplasms and other cancer: a nationwide population-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Malaria is associated with Burkitt lymphoma among children in Sub-Saharan Africa. No longitudinal studies have assessed the long-term risk of other lymphoma or cancer overall. Here, we investigated the risk of lymphoid neoplasms and other cancer after malaria.

Methods

We included 4125 patients diagnosed with malaria in Sweden in 1987-2015, identified either through the National Surveillance Database at the Public Health Agency of Sweden, the National Inpatient and Outpatient Register, or by reports from microbiology departments. A comparator cohort (N = 66,997) matched on sex, age and birth region was retrieved from the general population and an additional cohort with all individuals born in Sub-Saharan Africa registered in the Total Population Register in 1987-20

SUBMITTER: Wyss K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7596993 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature