RT Journal Article
T1 Different spatial pattern of municipal prostate cancer mortality in younger men in Spain.
A1 Rodriguez-Sanchez, Lara
A1 Fernández-Navarro, Pablo
A1 López-Abente, Gonzalo
A1 Nuñez, Olivier
A1 Fernández de Larrea-Baz, Nerea
A1 Jimenez-Moleón, Jose Juan
A1 Páez Borda, Álvaro
A1 Pollán, Marina
A1 Perez-Gomez, Beatriz
AB Prostate cancer (PC) primarily affects elderly men. However, the specific features of cases diagnosed at younger ages ( The Spanish National Institute of Statistics supplied data on PC mortality, hospital admission, and population data. We estimated the expected town-specific number of deaths and calculated the standardized mortality ratios. Spatial autoregressive models of Besag-York-Mollié provided smoother municipal estimators of PC mortality risk (all ages;  A total of 29,566 PC deaths (6% among those  The consistent high PC mortality/morbidity risk in the Northwest of Spain indicates an area with a real excess of risk. The different spatial pattern in younger men suggests that some factors associated with geographical risk might have differential effects by age. Finally, the regional divergences in mortality and morbidity hint at clinical variability as a source of inequity within Spain.
YR 2019
FD 2019-01-25
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10668/13461
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10668/13461
LA en
DS RISalud
RD Apr 5, 2025