Unit of Epidemiology, University of Southern Denmark, The Danish Twin Registry, DARC, University of Southern Denmark.
Br J Cancer. 2011 Feb 1;104(3):520-3. doi: 10.1038/sj.bjc.6606090.
A positive association between socio-economic position and breast cancer has been widely observed, but not hitherto within twin pairs, where shared familial factors were adjusted for.
We used data on education and other factors from the Danish Twin Registry, The Danish Cancer Registry, and official registers on a total of 16 310 twins. Unpaired and intrapair Cox regression analyses were compared.
In the unpaired analysis, an educational gradient in breast cancer risk was found. Similar results were seen in the intrapair analyses of all twins, although no longer statistically significant. When intrapair analyses were stratified on zygosity, the effect of education was attenuated in the monozygotic twins.
The main findings support an effect of education beyond shared familial factors.
社会经济地位与乳腺癌之间呈正相关,这一关联已得到广泛观察,但在双胞胎中尚未观察到,因为双胞胎中调整了共同的家庭因素。
我们使用了丹麦双胞胎登记处、丹麦癌症登记处和关于总共 16310 对双胞胎的官方登记处的教育和其他因素的数据。我们比较了非配对和配对 Cox 回归分析。
在非配对分析中,发现乳腺癌风险存在教育梯度。在所有双胞胎的配对分析中也观察到了类似的结果,尽管不再具有统计学意义。当按同卵双生子和异卵双生子进行配对分析分层时,教育的作用在同卵双生子中减弱。
主要发现支持教育对共同家庭因素之外的乳腺癌发病风险的影响。