Cancer time trend in a population following a socio-economic transition: results of age-period-cohort analysis

Giovanni Mario Pes (), Federica Cocco (), Stefano Bibbò (), Giuseppina Marras () and Maria Pina Dore ()
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Giovanni Mario Pes: University of Sassari
Federica Cocco: University of Sassari
Stefano Bibbò: University of Sassari
Giuseppina Marras: University of Sassari
Maria Pina Dore: University of Sassari

International Journal of Public Health, 2017, vol. 62, issue 3, No 10, 407-414

Abstract: Abstract Objectives To examine cancer trend using age-period-cohort analysis with a cohort of patients in Sardinia, Italy, where epidemiological transition occurred between 1950 and 1960. Methods Poisson log-linear regression models were used to analyze time trend in patients undergoing upper endoscopy between 1995 and 2013. Results A total of 10,546 clinical records (62.2% women) were retrieved. In 541 patients (5.1%), a diagnosis of cancer was reported, more often in men (5.5%) than in women (4.9%). Age and birth cohort were significantly associated with cancer rate according to age-period-cohort analysis (p

Keywords: Cancer prevalence; Age-period-cohort analysis; Epidemiological transition; Sardinia (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-017-0946-9

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