Open AccessBrain cancer and nonoccupational risk factors: a case-control study among workers at two nuclear facilities.
Author(s) -
Arvind V. Carpenter,
W. Dana Flanders,
E. L. Frome,
Philip Cole,
Shirley A. Fry
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
american journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284
H-Index - 264
eISSN - 1541-0048
pISSN - 0090-0036
DOI - 10.2105/ajph.77.9.1180
Subject(s) - medicine , nested case control study , brain cancer , epilepsy , case control study , head injury , association (psychology) , cancer , environmental health , demography , psychiatry , psychology , sociology , psychotherapist
In a nested case-control study of nuclear workers, 82 brain cancer cases were compared with 328 matched controls to investigate the possible association with nonoccupational risk factors such as histories of epilepsy or head injury. We observed a moderately strong association between brain cancer occurrence and history of epilepsy (OR = 5.7, 95 per cent CI: 1.0, 32.1), but did not find a positive association with previous head injury (OR = 0.9, 95 per cent CI: 0.2, 4.2).