Role of environmental and social factors in gastric cancer mortality in Hungary
K Tamássy, A Páldy, G Nádor, J Szabó, L Pásztor · Zeitschrift für Gastroenterologie · 2006 · Heft 06
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Introduction: Inadequate sanitation practices, low social class, and crowded or high-density living conditions seem to be related to a higher prevalence of H. pylori infection. Patients and methods: Spatial differences in mortality from gastric cancer (ICD-10:C16) in both sexes in the age groups of 35–64y and over 65 years was studied by cluster analysis using SCAN method based on GAM-K method for the periods of 1986–1993 and 1994–2004. The association of mortality and 28 socio-economical factors (marital state, education, unemployment, water supply, sanitation) from the 2001 census on settlement level as well a…