Trends in smoking-attributable mortality in Spain: 1990-2018.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study sought to analyse the trend in smoking-attributable mortality (SAM) in Spain among the population aged ≥35 years across the period 1990-2018.

Methods

SAM was estimated by applying a prevalence-independent method, which uses lung cancer (LC) mortality as a proxy of tobacco consumption. We sourced observed mortality from the National Institute of Statistics (Spain), LC mortality rates in smokers and never smokers from the Cancer Prevention Study I-II, and relative risks from 5 US cohorts. Estimates of annual SAM by cause of death, sex and age are shown, along with crude and annual standardised SAM rates. The trend in standardised all-cause and LC rates was analysed using a joinpoint regression model.

Results

Tobacco caused 1 717 150 deaths in Spain

SUBMITTER: Rey-Brandariz J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9713395 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature