Gastric cancer is one of the main health issues in Lithuania. The risk factors of the disease are related to nutrition and environment. There were no epidemiological studies on that subject in the country. The aim of the study was to assess a relationship between gastric cancer risk and lifestyle (diet, alcohol use, smoking, physical activity), work environment and some social factors.
A hospital based case-control study included 379 cases with newly histologically confirmed diagnose of gastric cancer and 1137 controls that were cancer and gastric diseases free. Cases and controls matched by gender and age (+5yr.). Ratio of case and controls was 1:3. A questionnaire was used to collect information on possible risk factors of gastric cancer. The odds ratios (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for gastric cancer were calculated by a conditional logistic regression.
Our data showed that salt and salt processed food items increased risk of gastric cancer. After adjustment for a certain confounders (alcohol use, smoking, family history on cancer, Body Mass Index at 20 yr of age, education level, residence, other dietary habits that were related to the outcome, and physical activity) subjects that like salty food or put salt additionally to prepared meal had three times higher risk of gastric than those who do not do that. The risk of the disease increased two times eating salted meat 1-3 times a month and more, having smoked meat 3-4 times a week and more, and using smoked... [to full text]
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LABT_ETD/oai:elaba.lt:LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20060106_144955-17061 |
| Date | 06 January 2006 |
| Creators | Žičkutė, Jurgita |
| Contributors | Kregždytė, Rima, Petkevičienė, Janina, Kurtinaitis, Juozas, Kalėdienė, Ramunė, Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Publisher | Lithuanian Academic Libraries Network (LABT), Kaunas University of Medicine |
| Source Sets | Lithuanian ETD submission system |
| Language | Lithuanian |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Doctoral thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://vddb.library.lt/obj/LT-eLABa-0001:E.02~2005~D_20060106_144955-17061 |
| Rights | Unrestricted |
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