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British Journal of Cancer (2008) 99, 1912–1915. doi:10.1038/sj.bjc.6604761 www.bjcancer.com
Published online 28 October 2008

Tobacco smoking, body mass index, hypertension, and kidney cancer risk in central and eastern Europe

P Brennan1, O van der Hel1, L E Moore2, D Zaridze3, V Matveev4, I Holcatova5, V Janout6, H Kollarova6, L Foretova7, N Szeszenia-Dabrowska8, D Mates9, N Rothman2, P Boffetta1 and W-H Chow2

  1. 1International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), Lyon, France
  2. 2Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, MD, USA
  3. 3Institute of Carcinogenesis, Cancer Research Center, Moscow, Russia
  4. 4Department of Urology, NN Blokhin Cancer Research Centre, Moscow, Russia
  5. 5Charles University in Prague, First Faculty of Medicine, Prague, Czech Republic
  6. 6Department of Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic
  7. 7Department of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Brno, Czech Republic
  8. 8Department of Epidemiology, Institute of Occupational Medicine, Lodz, Poland
  9. 9Institute of Public Health, Bucharest, Romania

Correspondence: Dr P Brennan, E-mail: brennan@iarc.fr

Received 7 August 2008; Revised 3 October 2008; Accepted 3 October 2008; Published online 28 October 2008.

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Abstract

In a case–control study of kidney cancer in four central European countries, with 1097 incident cases and 1476 controls, we found an increased risk for self-reported hypertension and for obesity. Additional unknown risk factors are likely to be responsible for the high rates of kidney cancer in this region.

Keywords:

BMI, eastern Europe, hypertension, kidney cancer, smoking

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