[Correlation study of cancer mortality and food consumption].
The geographical relationships between cancer mortality and food consumption were analyzed by means of extensive uses of correlation coefficiencies, factor analysis, multiple regression analysis, cluster analysis and path analysis. The results for the countries in the world varied broadly due to selection of the countries analyzed. The results for prefectures in Japan showed differences between males and females especially with regard to stomach cancer. The present study shows the importance of careful selection of geographical and other variables when making correlation studies.
D000428:Alcohol Drinking; D000704:Analysis of Variance; D004435:Eating; D005247:Feeding Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000401:mortality*