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© 1985 Oxford University Press

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Acute Appendicitis not Associated with Social Class among Children

KARI POIKOLAINEN*, MERJA SAARINEN** and JUHANI ESKOLA{dagger}

*Department of Public Health Science, University of Helsinki Haartmaninkatu 3, SF–00290 Helsinki 29, Finland
**Aurora Hospital Nordenskiöldinkatu 20, SF-00250 Helsinki 25, Finland
{dagger}Children's Hospital, University of Helsinki Stenbäckinkatu 11, SF–00290 Helsinki 29, Finland

Poikolainen K (Department of Public Health Science, University of Helsinki, Haartmaninkatu 3, SF–00290 Helsinki 29, Finland), Searinen M and Eskola J. Acute appendicitis not associated with social class among children.International Journal of Epidemiology 1985, 14: 333–334.

Acute appendicitis has previously been found to be associated with social class. In an attempt to conform this, 125 patients with histologically verified acute appendicitis were compared with 1802 control children, randomly selected from the schools of the City of Helsinki. Social class determination was based on father‘s occupation in families with two parents, and on mother’s occupation in single provider families. No association with social class was found. The proportion of single provider families was around 25% among both cases and controls. Appendicitis patients are one potential source of control groups in epidemiological studies.

Received 1 October 1984


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