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SUBMITTER: Cardwell CR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2579698 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Cardwell C R CR McKinney P A PA Patterson C C CC Murray L J LJ
British journal of cancer 20080930 9
We investigated infections in early life (diagnosed in general practice) and subsequent risk of childhood leukaemia in the UK General Practice Research Database (GPRD). All children born at GPRD practices and subsequently diagnosed with leukaemia were identified as cases and were individually matched (on year of birth, sex and practice) to up to 20 controls. The final analysis included 162 leukaemia cases and 2215 matched controls. Conditional logistic regression demonstrated no evidence that ch ...[more]