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SUBMITTER: Etxeberria J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4131489 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Etxeberria Jaione J Ugarte María Dolores MD Goicoa Tomás T Militino Ana F AF
Population health metrics 20140710
In this paper, space-time patterns of colorectal cancer (CRC) mortality risks are studied by sex and age group (50-69, ≥70) in Spanish provinces during the period 1975-2008. Space-time conditional autoregressive models are used to perform the statistical analyses. A pronounced increase in mortality risk has been observed in males for both age-groups. For males between 50 and 69 years of age, trends seem to stabilize from 2001 onward. In females, trends reflect a more stable pattern during the pe ...[more]