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SUBMITTER: Wyss A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3755640 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Wyss Annah A Hashibe Mia M Chuang Shu-Chun SC Lee Yuan-Chin Amy YC Zhang Zuo-Feng ZF Yu Guo-Pei GP Winn Deborah M DM Wei Qingyi Q Talamini Renato R Szeszenia-Dabrowska Neonila N Sturgis Erich M EM Smith Elaine E Shangina Oxana O Schwartz Stephen M SM Schantz Stimson S Rudnai Peter P Purdue Mark P MP Eluf-Neto Jose J Muscat Joshua J Morgenstern Hal H Michaluart Pedro P Menezes Ana A Matos Elena E Mates Ioan Nicolae IN Lissowska Jolanta J Levi Fabio F Lazarus Philip P La Vecchia Carlo C Koifman Sergio S Herrero Rolando R Hayes Richard B RB Franceschi Silvia S Wünsch-Filho Victor V Fernandez Leticia L Fabianova Eleonora E Daudt Alexander W AW Dal Maso Luigino L Curado Maria Paula MP Chen Chu C Castellsague Xavier X de Carvalho Marcos Brasilino MB Cadoni Gabriella G Boccia Stefania S Brennan Paul P Boffetta Paolo P Olshan Andrew F AF
American journal of epidemiology 20130630 5
Cigar and pipe smoking are considered risk factors for head and neck cancers, but the magnitude of effect estimates for these products has been imprecisely estimated. By using pooled data from the International Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiology (INHANCE) Consortium (comprising 13,935 cases and 18,691 controls in 19 studies from 1981 to 2007), we applied hierarchical logistic regression to more precisely estimate odds ratios and 95% confidence intervals for cigarette, cigar, and pipe smoking sepa ...[more]