Usefulness of population controls in retrospective studies of alcohol consumption. Experience from a case--control study of esophageal cancer in Ille-et-Vilaine, France

J Stud Alcohol. 1978 Jan;39(1):175-82. doi: 10.15288/jsa.1978.39.175.

Abstract

Men from the general population of an area, interviewed in their homes, and men from the same area who were hospitalized (without alochol-related diseases) and interviewed in the hospital had similar distributions according to alcohol use.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Alcohol Drinking*
  • Alcoholism / complications
  • Esophageal Neoplasms / epidemiology*
  • Esophageal Neoplasms / etiology
  • France
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Registries
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Smoking / complications
  • Statistics as Topic*