Titre :
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Effects of changes in smoking status on risk estimates for myocardial infarction among women recruited for the Royal College of general practitioners'Oral Contraception Study in the UK. (1998)
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Auteurs :
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V. OWEN-SMITH ;
S. FERRY ;
P.C. HANNAFORD ;
C.R. KAY ;
M. WARSKYJ ;
The Royal College of General Practitioners'Manchester Research Unit. Manchester. GBR
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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Journal of epidemiology and community health (vol. 52, n° 7, 1998)
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Pagination :
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420-424
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Tabagisme
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Infarctus
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Myocarde
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Epidémiologie
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Facteur risque
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Evolution
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Homme
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Femme
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Royaume Uni
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Europe
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Questionnaire
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Appareil circulatoire [pathologie]
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Cardiopathie coronaire
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Myocarde [pathologie]
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST mnqcR0xs. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Study objective-To determine whether changes in smoking status among women recruited for the Royal College of General Practitioners'Oral Contraception Study affected previous risk estimates for myocardial infarction. Design- (1) Postal survey between November 1994 and July 1995 of women still under general practitioner observation. Validation of the smoking information supplied by the women on the questionnaire by comparison with that reported by the general practitioner at recruitment to the main study. (2) Nested case-control study of 103 cases of myocardial infarction, matched with 309 controls, to see if different risk estimates were obtained when smoking status at recruitment or smoking status at time of event were used in the analysis. Setting-650 general practices throughout the United Kingdom. Participants-10 073 women who responded to the questionnaire (85.4% of 11 797 sent out). Main results-There was good agreement between smoking information recorded by the general practitioner at recruitment and that supplied retrospectively by respondents to the questionnaire. The risk estimates for myocardial infarction associated with use of combined oral contraceptives (COCs) were almost identical irrespective of whether smoking status at recruitment or at time of event was used for the statistical adjustment. This was because few women stopped smoking while also using COCs. (...)
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