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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 125, No. 5: 800-811
Copyright © 1987 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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HISTORY OF RESIDENCE AND LUNG CANCER RISK IN NEW MEXICO

JONATHAN M. SAMET1,2,, CHARLES G. HUMBLE1, BETTY E. SKIPPER3 and DOROTHY R. PATHAK3

1 New Mexico Tumor Registry, Cancer Center, University of New Mexico Medical Center 900 Camino de Salud NE, Albuquerque, NM 87131
2 Departments of Medicine and Family, Community and Emergency Medicine, and the Interdepartmental Program in Epidemiology, University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM
3 Department of Family, Community, and Emergency Medicine, and the Interdepartmental Program in Epidemiology, University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM

Reprint requests to Dr. Jonathan M. Samet.

Participants in a population-based case-control study of lung cancer in New Mexico between 1980 and 1982 were asked to Identify all locations where they had resided for six months or more. These residential data were coded at the county and state levels and combined with county-level socioeconomic data from the 1910, 1930, 1950, and 1970 decennial censuses to generate indices of time lived in counties or metropolitan areas of different sizes, degrees of urbanization, or extents of employment in manufacturing industries. Urban residence was not associated with employment of male controls in jobs or Industries considered to increase lung cancer risk. However, In the non-Hispanic white female controls, urban residence before age 30 years in a county of 500,000 or more residents was associated with a fourfold higher odds ratio for starting to smoke cigarettes. Male and female non-Hispanic controls who had ever lived in more populous counties smoked more cigarettes per day than did those who had not lived in such counties. Residential history patterns were the same in cases and controls; multiple logistic regression showed no consistent associations of the residence history variables with lung cancer risk.

air pollutants; Hispanic Americans; lung neoplasms


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