Epidemiology of cervical cancer--a case control study on north Indian population.
The present case control study on married women with cervical cancer and controls (100 each) revealed the association of age at marriage, socioeconomic status, education status and parity with cervical cancer but young age at marriage (rr 3.79) and low socioeconomic status (rr -3.81) emerged as independent predictors of disease status.
Department of Biotechnology, Punjab University, Chandigarh, India.
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D004522:Educational Status; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D008393:Marriage; D008875:Middle Aged; D010298:Parity; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology*; D016387:Women's Health