Usefulness of population controls in retrospective studies of alcohol consumption. Experience from a case--control study of esophageal cancer in Ille-et-Vilaine, France.
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.
D000328:Adult; D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000150:complications; D004938:Esophageal Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000209:etiology; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012042:Registries; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D012907:Smoking / Q000150:complications; D013223:Statistics as Topic