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Analysis of Clinical Susceptibility Bias in Case-Control StudiesAnalysis as Illustrated by the Menopausal Syndrome and the Risk of Endometrial Cancer
Ralph I. Horwitz, MD;
Alvan R. Feinstein, MD
Arch Intern Med. 1979;139(10):1111-1113.
Abstract
Epidemiologic studies of causes of disease rarely contain adjustments for inequalities in disease susceptibility caused by baseline differences in clinical phenomena. In the controversial association between estrogens and endometrial cancer, the menopausal syndrome was suspected as an independent risk factor for the development of endometrial cancer, irrespective of estrogen use. To investigate this suspicion, personal interview data from a case-control investigation were collected and analyzed. The odds ratio for the association between menopausal symptoms and endometrial cancer was 1.12 and 0.85 for two different sets of cases and controls assembled at the same institution. When the data were partitioned according to estrogen usage, the odds ratios became consistently less than one. The results suggest that the menopausal syndrome is not a risk factor for endometrial cancer.
(Arch Intern Med 139:1111-1113, 1979)
Author Affiliations
From the Departments of Medicine and Epidemiology and The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Conn.
Footnotes
Accepted for publication May 14, 1979.
Reprint requests to The Robert Wood Johnson Clinical Scholar Program, Yale University School of Medicine, 333 Cedar St, New Haven, CT 06510 (Dr Horwitz).
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