0.5% 소금물에 대한 역치와 위암발생의 위험도

The Threshold of 0.5% Salt-water Taste and Risk of Stomach Cancer

본 연구는 코호트내 환자-대조군 연구설계를 통하여 0.5% 소금물에 대한 역치와 위암발생 위험의 관련성을 구명하고자 수행되었다. 강화 코호트와 강화 암등록사업을 통하여 얻은 위암 환자군 90명, 지역사회대조군 141명을 대상으로 수집된 자료를 분석한 결과 두군간에 건강관련 변수들의 분포에 별 차이가 없었다. 다만 '주관적 건강수준'과 '동년배에 비교한 주관적 건강수준'에 차이가 있었다. Cox외 비례위험모형을 이용하여 '주관적 건강수준' 흡연, BMI 등 혼란변수를 통제하고 추정한 '0.5% 소금물을 싱겁다'고 느낀 군의 '그렇지 않다'고 느낀 군에 비한 위암의 상대위험도는 0.77로 통계적으로 유의한 수준이 아니었다(표4). 앞으로 이 분야에 대한 연구는 소금섭취량 측정수준의 상향조정은 물론, 매운 음식 섭취의 감안과 이 두변수의 교호작용등을 고려하되 환자 본인에게서 자료를 얻을 수 있는 병원내에서 수행하는 환자-대조군 연구를 수행함이 바람직하다고 생각한다.

The relationship between sodium intake and stomach cancer risk has been studied much in Japan but a great portions still remain controversial. There has been few studies on relationship between sodium intake and stomach cancer in Korea. The goal of this nested case-control study is to investigate the association between sodium intake and stomach cancer risk in a rural county of Korea We estimated sodium intake indirectly by the threshold of salt-water taste of patients. This study was based on both of the data from 'Kangwha Cohort Study' which had been conducted from March 1985 and 'Kangwha Community Cancer Registry' which had been launched on July in 1982 by the College of Medicine, Department of Preventive Medicine. Yonsei University. A total of 145 patients who developed stomach cancer in Kangwha County were initially recruited as the case group. We tried to get two community-controls per stomach cancer case by matching age and gender. Finally we got information from 90 cases and 146 controls about the threshold of the salt taste and preference of salty food and so on. Some 79% of the information about ease group came from proxy respondents and 56% among controls. Risk ratios of developing stomach cancer adjusted for smoking, body mass index and self-stated health level were estimated. No statistically significant association between the threshold of salt taste and stomach cancer risk found in this study. We recommend some further studies utilizing urinary salt excretion, diet record method for better estimating of salt intake with a paticular emphasis on interaction effect between salty and spicy food in hospital-based case-control study designs.