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Am J Epidemiol 2003; 158:393.
Copyright © 2003 by Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RE: "MODELING SMOKING HISTORY: A COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT APPROACHES"

Kurt Hoffmann1 and Manuela M. Bergmann2

1 Department of Epidemiology, German Institute of Human Nutrition, Arthur-Scheunert-Allee 114–116, 14558 Bergholz-Rehbrücke, Germany
2 German Institute of Human Nutrition, Potsdam-Rehbrücke, Germany

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In their recently published paper, Leffondré et al. (1) compared different approaches to modeling smoking history as a risk factor for lung cancer. Regression models with several smoking-related variables such as intensity, duration, and recency of smoking (models 16, 17, and 18 in the paper (1)) were shown to be better than simple models using only smoking status or cigarette-years. The more characteristics of exposure . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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