Residential mobility and childhood leukemia

摘要: Abstract Aims Studies of environmental exposures and childhood leukemia studies do not usually account for residential mobility. Yet, in addition to being a potential risk factor, mobility can induce selection bias, confounding, or measurement error such studies. Using data collected California Powerline Study (CAPS), we attempt disentangle the effect Methods We analyzed from population-based case-control study using cases who were born diagnosed between 1988 2008 birth certificate controls. used stratified logistic regression, case-only analysis, propensity-score adjustments assess predictors diagnosis, confounding due Results Children moved tended be older, lived housing other than single-family homes, had younger mothers fewer siblings, lower socioeconomic status. Odds ratios among non-movers living Conclusion The varied by several sociodemographic characteristics, but distance nearest power line calculated magnetic fields. Mobility appears an unlikely explanation associations observed lines exposure leukemia.