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ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2012

Role of tobacco use in the etiology of acoustic neuroma.

Sadie Palmisano, Judith Schwartzbaum, Michaela Prochazka, David Pettersson, Tommy Bergenheim, Rut Florentzson, Henrik Harder, Tiit Mathiesen, Gunnar Nyberg, Peter Siesjö and 1 more

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Article in American journal of epidemiology, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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7citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 24% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Sadie PalmisanoDivision of Epidemiology, College of Public Health, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA.
Judith Schwartzbaum
Michaela Prochazka
David Pettersson
Tommy Bergenheim
Rut Florentzson
Henrik Harder
Tiit Mathiesen
Gunnar Nyberg
Peter Siesjö
Maria Feychting
Karolinska Institutet · SELinköping University · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Two previous studies suggest that cigarette smoking reduces acoustic neuroma risk; however, an association between use of snuff tobacco and acoustic neuroma has not been investigated previously. The authors conducted a case-control study in Sweden from 2002 to 2007, in which 451 cases and 710 population-based controls completed questionnaires. Cases and controls were matched on gender, region, and age within 5 years. The authors estimated odds ratios using conditional logistic regression analyses, adjusted for education and tobacco use (snuff use in the smoking analysis and smoking in the snuff analysis). The risk of acoustic neuroma was greatly reduced in male current smokers (odds ratio (OR) = 0.41, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.23, 0.74) and moderately reduced in female current smokers (OR = 0.70, 95% CI: 0.40, 1.23). In contrast, current snuff use among males was not associated with risk of acoustic neuroma (OR = 0.94, 95% CI: 0.57, 1.55). The authors' findings are consistent with previous reports of lower acoustic neuroma risk among current cigarette smokers than among never smokers. The absence of an association between snuff use and acoustic neuroma suggests that some constituent of tobacco smoke other than nicotine may confer protection against acoustic neuroma.

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SmokingTobacco, SmokelessAdultAgedCase-Control StudiesFemaleHealth SurveysHumansLogistic ModelsMaleMiddle AgedNeuroma, AcousticOdds RatioRegistriesSex DistributionSurveys and Questionnaires

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PMID22517809
PMCPMC3372315
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