The evolution of breast cancer mortality and morbidity in Spain (1977?1988)
| Autor: | E. Soto Pinchel, M. C. Jiménez López, M. M. Morales Suarez-Varela, A. Llopis Gonzalez |
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| Rok vydání: | 1996 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
education.field_of_study Balearic islands Epidemiology business.industry Breast cancer mortality Mortality rate Age adjustment Population Anova test Breast Neoplasms government.political_district medicine.disease Breast cancer Spain government Humans Medicine Female Morbidity Mortality business education Demography |
| Zdroj: | European Journal of Epidemiology. 12:351-358 |
| ISSN: | 1573-7284 |
| Popis: | A study of breast cancer mortality and cancer morbidity has been carried out in Spain recently for the period 1977-1988, covering the population of the 17 Autonomous Communities and 50 provinces of the country. Data was obtained from INE, Instituto Nacional de Estadística (National Institute of Statistics), with age standardization using the indirect method. The different Autonomous Communities and provinces were compared in order to establish possible significant differences. The crude mean mortality rate was 21 cases per 100,000 inhabitants/year; Las Palmas, Gerona, Barcelona, the Balearic Islands, Navarra and Zaragoza have the highest mortality rates, with a proportional increment of 54% in that period. The crude national mean morbidity rate for the considered period was 64.0 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, and the proportional increment 180%. According to provincial figures, Alava had the highest fitted mean morbidity rate, 135 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, whilst the highest fitted mean rate was Las Palmas (28 cases/100,000 inhabitants), and the highest proportional increment was the rate for the province of Huesca (169%). When using the ANOVA test on the mean rate of the period, for mortality as well as morbidity, we observed significant differences among provinces and among Autonomous Communities (por = 0.05). |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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