ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2010
Birth order and risk of non-hodgkin lymphoma--true association or bias?
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- Common immune-related exposures/conditions and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma: a case-control study of disease-discordant twin pairs.American journal of epidemiology · 2015Article
- Early-life hygiene-related factors affect risk of central nervous system demyelination and asthma differentially.Clinical and experimental immunology · 2013Article
- A case-control study of medium-term exposure to ambient nitrogen dioxide pollution and hospitalization for stroke.BMC public health · 2013Article
- Perinatal and family risk factors for non-Hodgkin lymphoma in early life: a Swedish national cohort study.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2012Article
- Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in early life.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2012Article
- Current understanding of lifestyle and environmental factors and risk of non-hodgkin lymphoma: an epidemiological update.Journal of cancer epidemiology · 2012Article
- Lymphoid malignancies in U.S. Asians: incidence rate differences by birthplace and acculturation.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2011Article
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Abstract
There is inconsistent evidence that increasing birth order may be associated with risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). The authors examined the association between birth order and related variables and NHL risk in a pooled analysis (1983-2005) of 13,535 cases and 16,427 controls from 18 case-control studies within the International Lymphoma Epidemiology Consortium (InterLymph). Overall, the authors found no significant association between increasing birth order and risk of NHL (P-trend = 0.082) and significant heterogeneity. However, a significant association was present for a number of B- and T-cell NHL subtypes. There was considerable variation in the study-specific risks which was partly explained by study design and participant characteristics. In particular, a significant positive association was present in population-based studies, which had lower response rates in cases and controls, but not in hospital-based studies. A significant positive association was present in higher-socioeconomic-status (SES) participants only. Results were very similar for the related variable of sibship size. The known correlation of high birth order with low SES suggests that selection bias related to SES may be responsible for the association between birth order and NHL.
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