• 1. Department of Respiratory Medicine, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China;2. Chinese Evidence-Based Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China;
LI Weimin, Email: weimi003@yahoo.com
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Objective  To study the risk factors of lung cancer and provide scientific evidence for preventing and managing such disease.
Methods ?The database of MEDLINE, CNKI, and CBM were searched and literature domestically and internationally from January 1997 to January 2007 was collected. The RevMan 4.2 software was used for meta-analysis.
Results  A total of 40 studies involving 16 559 cases and 25 119 controls were included. The pooled OR values and population attributable risk percentage (PARP) for smoking, female passive smoking from husband, female passive smoking from colleague, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, pulmonary tuberculosis, family history of cancer, and family history of lung cancer were 5.75 (69.16%), 1.32 (14.52%), 1.21 (5.87%), 1.68 (7.45%), 2.70 (10.18%), 1.58 (1.91%), 1.24 (8.92%), and 1.59 (5.33%), respectively.
Conclusion  Risk factors related to the incidence of lung cancer are smoking, female passive smoking from husband and colleague, chronic bronchitis, emphysema, pulmonary tuberculosis, family history of cancer, family history of lung cancer and so on. Besides, the results of PARP indicate that smoking is the most important factor, followed by female passive smoking from husband, emphysema, family history of cancer sequentially, which suggest that environmental and genetic factors play important roles in the development of lung cancer.

Citation: WANG Dongmei,CHEN Bojiang,LI Weimin,LI Jing,CHEN Wenbin. Risk Factors on Lung Cancer: A Meta-Analysis. Chinese Journal of Evidence-Based Medicine, 2010, 10(12): 1446-1459. doi: 10.7507/1672-2531.20100610 Copy

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