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Invited Commentary: A Sunbed Epidemic?

Author(s) -

Marianne Berwick

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

american journal of epidemiology

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.33

H-Index - 256

eISSN - 1476-6256

pISSN - 0002-9262

DOI - 10.1093/aje/kwq232

Subject(s) - incidence (geometry) , ultraviolet radiation , icelandic , time lag , demography , geography , medicine , environmental health , lag , philosophy , optics , chemistry , computer network , linguistics , physics , sociology , computer science , radiochemistry

The Icelandic study of melanoma trends by Héry et al. in this issue of the Journal (Am J Epidemiol. 2010;172(7):762-767) is a fascinating analysis of an ecologic association. The authors noted a sharp increase in melanoma incidence that appeared to lag a few years behind the increased prevalence of sunbeds in Iceland. Caution, however, must be exercised in interpreting the data because of the lack of understanding of emissions of ultraviolet radiation from sunbeds and the ecologic nature of the data.

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