Cigarette smoking and thyroid cancer risk: a cohort study
Ara Cho; Yoosoo Chang; Jiin Ahn; Ho Cheol Shin; Seungho Ryu · 2018 · British Journal of Cancer
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Abstract
BACKGROUND: We evaluated the association between smoking status and thyroid cancer risk and whether this association is mediated by body mass index (BMI) and thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). METHODS: We performed a cohort study of 96,855 Korean adults who were followed annually or biennially for a median of 5.9 years. RESULTS: During 511,052.9 person-years of follow-up, 1,250 participants developed thyroid cancer. In men, we observed a dose-dependent inverse association between current smoking, pack-years, and thyroid cancer. After adjustment for confounders, adjusted hazard ratios (95% conf
Abstract by Ara Cho; Yoosoo Chang; Jiin Ahn; Ho Cheol Shin; Seungho Ryu, British Journal of Cancer (2018) — licensed CC BY 4.0.
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Metadata source: OpenAlex · DOI 10.1038/s41416-018-0224-5