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International Journal of Public Health and Safety

ISSN: 2736-6189

Open Access

Fuad Zeid

Department of Mechanical Engineering, Marshall University, Huntington WV, USA

Publications
  • Original Research Article   
    Regression Analysis of Coal Production and Tobacco Smoking with Lung Cancer in West Virginia, USA
    Author(s): Mohammed Ferdjallah*, Fuad Zeid and Asad Salem

    The objective of this study is to investigate the impacts of coal production on the prevalence of lung cancer in West Virginia, USA. It has been accepted that lung cancer is strongly correlated with tobacco smoking. In this study, we used linear regression analysis to estimate the degree of association of lung cancer incidence and tobacco smoking prevalence in the presence of coal production. We found that lung cancer association with tobacco smoking becomes stronger when coal production is considered in the producing coal counties. In coal non-producing counties, the association between lung cancer and tobacco smoking is not significant due to high variability of lung cancer incidence and limited availability of data. When we used a first order inverse distance to estimate the effective coal production in coal non-producing counties, we found a moderate correl.. Read More»
    DOI: 10.37421/2736-6189.2023.8.354

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