American Journal of Epidemiology, Vol 152, Issue 6 506-513, Copyright © 2000 by Oxford University Press
GH Rauscher, ST Mayne and DT Janerich
The authors assessed body mass index (BMI), measured as Quetelet's index
(weight in kilograms divided by the square of height in meters), in
relation to lung cancer risk in never and former smokers by using data from
a population-based, individually matched, case-control study conducted in
New York State from 1982 to 1985. To be included in the study, subjects
must never have smoked more than 100 cigarettes in their lifetime (never
smokers) or not have smoked more than 100 cigarettes during the last 10
years (former smokers). Data on height and weight were complete for 412 of
439 case-control pairs. A positive relation was found between BMI and lung
cancer risk for both never smokers (188 case-control pairs) and former
smokers (224 pairs). When subjects were combined, those in the eighth
(highest) octile (BMI > 30.84) had more than twice the odds of being
cases compared with those in the lowest octile (BMI < or =21.26, 95
percent confidence interval: 1.2, 4.4). These study results are consistent
with those from studies of BMI and other cancer sites but differ from lung
cancer results usually found in predominantly smoking populations.
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Relation between body mass index and lung cancer risk in men and women never and former smokers
Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA.
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