Table 1.
Education by sex and geographic region and lung cancer incidence rate in the European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition cohort (N=391,251)
| Group | Person-years (%) |
Incidence rate† | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Education* |
||||||
| All subjects | 1 (lowest) | 2 | 3 | 4 (highest) | ||
| Men | ||||||
| All | 1173428 | 408620 (35) | 289291 (24) | 162315 (14) | 313202 (27) | 90 |
| North‡|| | 662008 | 181637 (28) | 193539 (29) | 101033 (15) | 185799 (28) | 85 |
| Germany|| | 173643 | 41828 (24) | 47790 (28) | 9125 (5) | 74900 (43) | 95 |
| South§|| | 337777 | 185155 (55) | 47963 (14) | 52156 (15) | 52503 (16) | 93 |
| Women | ||||||
| All | 2092298 | 733854 (35) | 571903 (27) | 360592 (17) | 425949 (21) | 42 |
| North‡|| | 1266153 | 286681 (23) | 432827 (34) | 254464 (20) | 292180 (23) | 56 |
| Germany|| | 226640 | 52903 (23) | 94177 (42) | 18083 (8) | 61478 (27) | 22 |
| South§|| | 599505 | 394270 (66) | 44898 (7) | 88045 (15) | 72291 (12) | 17 |
The coding for education is as follows: 1=primary education or less, 2=vocational secondary education, 3=other secondary education, 4=college or university.
Age-adjusted, including participants 50–69 years at baseline, per 100,000 person-years.
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, UK, and The Netherlands.
Greece, Italy, and Spain.
The number of subjects by country is: Norway (33254 women), Sweden (21947 men and 26083 women), Denmark (26100 men and 28568 women), UK (19167 men and 42594 women), the Netherlands (9718 men and 26328 women), Germany (21521 men and 27843 women), Greece (10014 men and 14304 women), Italy (13644 men and 30449 women), Spain (15064 men and 24653 women)