著者
Ichiro WAKABAYASHI Kunihiro SAKAMOTO Hidehisa MASUI Sachiko YOSHIMOTO Akihisa KANAMARU Eizo KAKISHITA Hiroshi HARA Masashi SHIMO-OKA Kiyoyasu NAGAI
出版者
一般社団法人 日本内科学会
雑誌
Internal Medicine (ISSN:09182918)
巻号頁・発行日
vol.33, no.4, pp.198-203, 1994 (Released:2006-03-27)
参考文献数
22
被引用文献数
10 17

A case control study was performed with 142 leukemia patients and 284 controls matched for age and sex. Occupation, birth order, past medical history, and drinking and smoking habits were compared in these two groups. Persons born first or fourth were found to have a higher incidence of leukemia. History of a fracture was one of the risk factors for acute leukemia, and a history of gastroduodenal ulcer was a risk factor for chronic leukemia. This may suggest that extensive exposure to X-rays in diagnosis and treatment is a risk factor for leukemia. There was a significant dose-response relationship between the amount of smoking and the incidence of acute nonlymphocytic leukemia, but not between the amount of alcohol consumption and the incidence of leukemia. Thus, smoking was one of the risk factors for acute leukemia.(Internal Medicine 33:198-203, 1994)