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Table 2 Selected details of the 22 studies of FEV 1 and lung cancer

From: Systematic review with meta-analysis of the epidemiological evidence relating FEV1decline to lung cancer risk

Study REF

Reference(s)

Location

Baseline population

Follow-up period (years)

Lung cancer cases

Newcastle-Ottawa scorea

BEATY

[23]

USA, Baltimore

874 men aged 17+ entering study on aging between 1958 and 1979

24

15

7

CALABR

[1]

Italy, multicentre

3804 male and female current or former smokers aged 50–75 entering study between 2000 and 2008

5

57

6

CARET

[25, 26]

USA, multicentre

3033 male asbestos exposed heavy smokers aged 45–74 entering study between 1985 and 1994

20

205

8

CARTA

[19]

Italy, Sardinia

696 male silicotics aged up to 74 entering study between 1964 and 1970

23

22

6

FINKEL

[27]

Canada, Ontario

733 male radon exposed uranium miners studied in 1974

18

42

5

ISLAM

[4, 38]

USA, Michigan

3956 men and women aged 25+ entering community health study between 1962 and 1965

25

77

9

LANGE

[5]

Denmark, Copenhagen

13946 men and women aged 20+ entering heart health study between 1976 and 1978

12

225

8

MALDON

[31]

USA, Minnesota

1520b male and female current or former smokers aged 50+ studied in 1999

4

64

5

MANNIN

[32]

USA, national

5402 men and women aged 25–74 participating in NHANES between 1971 and 1975

22

113

9

MRFIT

[2, 30]

USA, multicentre

6613 men aged 35–57 at high risk of heart disease participating in the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial between 1973 and 1982

26

363

8

NOMURA

[7]

USA, Hawaii

6317 Japanese-American men aged 46–68 entering study between 1965 and 1968

22

172

8

PETO

[35]

UK, five areas

2718 men in occupational groups aged 25–64 entering study between 1954 and 1961

25

103

7

PURDUE

[37]

Sweden, national

176997 male construction workers entering study between 1971 and 1993

31

834

7

RENFRE

[3, 28]

Scotland, two cities

15244 men and women aged 45–64 entering study between 1972 and 1976

23

651

8

SKILLR

[9]

USA, Minnesota

226c men and women aged 45–59 living in rural areas entering study between 1973 and 1974

11

11

7

SPEIZE

[20]

USA six cities

8427 men and women aged 25–74 entering study between 1974 and 1977

12

61

8

STAVEM

[21]

Norway, Oslo

1623 male workers in five companies aged 40–59 entering study between 1972 and 1975

26

42

7

TAMMEM

[39]

Canada, British Columbia

2596 male and female current and former smokers of 20+ pack-years aged 40+ studied in 1990

17

154

8

TOCKMA

[10]

USA, Baltimore

3728 male current smokers and recent quitters, smoking 1+ packs/day, aged 45+ studied in 1987

2d

19

7

VANDEN

[40]

USA, California

153925 male and female members of the Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program entering study between 1964 and 1972

24

1514

9

WILES

[43]

South Africa, national

2062 male gold miners aged 45–54 entering study between 1968 and 1970

18

74

5

WILSON

[44]

USA, Pennsylvania

1553 male and female current or former smokers of 10+ cigs/day for 25+ years with FEV1/FVC <0.7, aged 50–79, entering study from 2002

5

67

6

  1. a See Methods for a description of this score. The maximum possible value is 9.
  2. b Nested case–control analysis involving 64 cases and 377 controls drawn from original population of 1520.
  3. c Nested case–control analysis involving 113 men and women with FEV1 <70% predicted, and 113 with FEV1 of 85% or more drawn from a study with original sample size not stated.
  4. d Although the mean follow-up was less than 3 years, follow-up for some subjects was 3 years or more, so the study was not considered to have failed the inclusion criteria.