Smoking and Risk of Leukemia
- 1 April 1992
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in American Journal of Epidemiology
- Vol. 135 (7) , 763-768
- https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a116362
Abstract
The relation between tobacco use and leukemia was evaluated in a population-based case-control study of 578 white men with leukemia and 820 controls conducted in Iowa and Minnesota during 1981–1984. Risks were significantly elevated for all leukemia (odds ratio (OR) = 1.4) and chronic lymphocyte leukemia (OR = 1.6) for both tobacco users and cigarette smokers. There were significantly elevated risks for cigarette smokers of longest duration for all leukemia (OR = 1.6), chronic myelogenous leukemia (OR = 3.3), and chronic lymphocytic leukemia (OR = 1.6). Thus, the findings of this study provide additional support for an association between smoking and the risk of several types of leukemia. Am J Epidemiol 1992;135:763–8.Keywords
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