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The prevalence of smokers is a major driver of lung cancer incidence in a population, though the “exposure–lag” effects are ill-defined. Here we present a multi-country ecological modelling study using a 30-year smoking prevalence history to quantify the exposure–lag response. To model the temporal dependency between smoking prevalence and lung cancer incidence, we used a distributed lag non-linear model (DLNM), controlling for gender, age group, country, outcome year, and population at risk, and presented the effects as the incidence rate ratio (IRR) and cumulative incidence rate ratio (IRRcum). The exposure–response varied by lag period, whilst the lag–response varied according to the magnitude and direction of changes in smoking prevalence in the population. For the cumulative lag–response, increments above and below the reference level was associated with an increased and decreased IRRcum respectively, with the magnitude of the effect varying across the lag period. Though caution should be exercised in interpretation of the IRR and IRRcum estimates reported herein, we hope our work constitutes a preliminary step towards providing policy makers with meaningful indicators to inform national screening programme developments. To that end, we have implemented our statistical model a shiny app and provide an example of its use.
Author(s): Smith DR, Behzadnia A, Imawana RA, Solim MN, Goodson ML
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Scientific Reports
Year: 2021
Volume: 11
Issue: 1
Online publication date: 14/07/2021
Acceptance date: 11/05/2021
Date deposited: 24/03/2022
ISSN (electronic): 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-91644-y
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-91644-y
PubMed id: 34262067
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