Reza Pakzad1, Saharnaz Nedjat1, Mehdi Yaseri1, Hamid Salehiniya2, Nasrin Mansournia3, Maryam Nazemipour4, Mohammad Ali Mansournia1. 1. Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 2. School of Public Health, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, South Khorasan, Iran. 3. Department of Endocrinology, AJA University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. 4. Psychosocial Health Research Institute, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to determine the association between smoking and breast cancer after adjusting for smoking misclassification bias and confounders. METHODS: In this case-control study, 1000 women with breast cancer and 1000 healthy controls were selected. Using a probabilistic bias analysis method, the association between smoking and breast cancer was adjusted for the bias resulting from misclassification of smoking secondary to self-reporting as well as a minimally sufficient adjustment set of confounders derived from a causal directed acyclic graph (cDAG). Population attributable fraction (PAF) for smoking was calculated using Miettinen's formula. RESULTS: While the odds ratio (OR) from the conventional logistic regression model between smoking and breast cancer was 0.64 (95% CI: 0.36-1.13), the adjusted ORs from the probabilistic bias analysis were in the ranges of 2.63-2.69 and 1.73-2.83 for non-differential and differential misclassification, respectively. PAF ranges obtained were 1.36-1.72% and 0.62-2.01% using the non-differential bias analysis and differential bias analysis, respectively. CONCLUSION: After misclassification correction for smoking, the non-significant negative-adjusted association between smoking and breast cancer changed to a significant positive-adjusted association.
PURPOSE: The aim of this study was to determine the association between smoking and breast cancer after adjusting for smoking misclassification bias and confounders. METHODS: In this case-control study, 1000 women with breast cancer and 1000 healthy controls were selected. Using a probabilistic bias analysis method, the association between smoking and breast cancer was adjusted for the bias resulting from misclassification of smoking secondary to self-reporting as well as a minimally sufficient adjustment set of confounders derived from a causal directed acyclic graph (cDAG). Population attributable fraction (PAF) for smoking was calculated using Miettinen's formula. RESULTS: While the odds ratio (OR) from the conventional logistic regression model between smoking and breast cancer was 0.64 (95% CI: 0.36-1.13), the adjusted ORs from the probabilistic bias analysis were in the ranges of 2.63-2.69 and 1.73-2.83 for non-differential and differential misclassification, respectively. PAF ranges obtained were 1.36-1.72% and 0.62-2.01% using the non-differential bias analysis and differential bias analysis, respectively. CONCLUSION: After misclassification correction for smoking, the non-significant negative-adjusted association between smoking and breast cancer changed to a significant positive-adjusted association.
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