Epidemic of Lung Cancer or Artifact of Classification in the State of Kentucky?

Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States despite public health campaigns aimed at reducing its rate of mortality. Kentucky is the state with the highest lung cancer incidence and mortality. This study aims to assess the impact of misclassification of cause of death...

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Main Author: Simo, Beatrice
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Published: Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University 2007
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spelling ndltd-ETSU-oai-dc.etsu.edu-etd-35192019-05-16T04:43:52Z Epidemic of Lung Cancer or Artifact of Classification in the State of Kentucky? Simo, Beatrice Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States despite public health campaigns aimed at reducing its rate of mortality. Kentucky is the state with the highest lung cancer incidence and mortality. This study aims to assess the impact of misclassification of cause of death from Lung Cancer in Kentucky for the period 1979 to 2002. We will examine the potential competing classification of death for two other smoking-related diseases, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Emphysema. Age-adjusted mortality rates for these diseases for white males were obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics. There was little evidence that any misclassification between COPD or Emphysema mortality rates was in agreement with the rising lung cancer rates in Kentucky. The long-term increase in lung cancer mortality in Kentucky is likely because of a combination of risk effects between smoking and other risk-factors for this disease. 2007-05-05T07:00:00Z text application/pdf https://dc.etsu.edu/etd/2158 https://dc.etsu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3519&context=etd Copyright by the authors. Electronic Theses and Dissertations Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University Misclassification Kentucky Lung cancer COPD Emphysema Physical Sciences and Mathematics Statistics and Probability Vital and Health Statistics
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topic Misclassification
Kentucky
Lung cancer
COPD
Emphysema
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Statistics and Probability
Vital and Health Statistics
spellingShingle Misclassification
Kentucky
Lung cancer
COPD
Emphysema
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Statistics and Probability
Vital and Health Statistics
Simo, Beatrice
Epidemic of Lung Cancer or Artifact of Classification in the State of Kentucky?
description Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer deaths in the United States despite public health campaigns aimed at reducing its rate of mortality. Kentucky is the state with the highest lung cancer incidence and mortality. This study aims to assess the impact of misclassification of cause of death from Lung Cancer in Kentucky for the period 1979 to 2002. We will examine the potential competing classification of death for two other smoking-related diseases, Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Emphysema. Age-adjusted mortality rates for these diseases for white males were obtained from the National Center for Health Statistics. There was little evidence that any misclassification between COPD or Emphysema mortality rates was in agreement with the rising lung cancer rates in Kentucky. The long-term increase in lung cancer mortality in Kentucky is likely because of a combination of risk effects between smoking and other risk-factors for this disease.
author Simo, Beatrice
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title Epidemic of Lung Cancer or Artifact of Classification in the State of Kentucky?
title_short Epidemic of Lung Cancer or Artifact of Classification in the State of Kentucky?
title_full Epidemic of Lung Cancer or Artifact of Classification in the State of Kentucky?
title_fullStr Epidemic of Lung Cancer or Artifact of Classification in the State of Kentucky?
title_full_unstemmed Epidemic of Lung Cancer or Artifact of Classification in the State of Kentucky?
title_sort epidemic of lung cancer or artifact of classification in the state of kentucky?
publisher Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University
publishDate 2007
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