We examined the relationship of socioeconomic status to health status, as determined by the Arthritis Impact Measurement Scales, in 78 systemic lupus erythematosus patients who had been entered into a prospective study. After controlling for age, disease duration, and disease severity, a significant
The relationship of marital status to survival from melanoma
โ Scribed by Noel S. Weiss; John T. Flannery
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1978
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 203 KB
- Volume
- 42
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0008-543X
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โฆ Synopsis
As an indirect test of the hypothesis that prior pregnancy has a favorable influence on prognosis in melanoma, the relation of marital status to survival among melanoma patients was examined in data gathered by the Connecticut Tumor Registry, 1935--1973. Compared to women who had never been married, ever-married women with the disease had a slightly increased survival rate, but the difference was not statistically significant. If a difference between parous and nulliparous women in survival from melanoma truly exists, it is probably a small one, and could be due to differences in characteristics other than childbearing.
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