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Risk Factors for Gliomas and Meningiomas in Males in Los Angeles County¹

Department of Preventive Medicine, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90033

Detailed job histories and information about other suspected risk factors were obtained during interviews with 272 men aged 25–69 with a primary brain tumor first diagnosed during 1980–1984 and with 272 individually matched neighbor controls. Separate analyses were conducted for the 202 glioma pairs and the 70 meningioma pairs. Meningioma, but not glioma, was related to having a serious head injury 20 or more years before diagnosis [odds ratio (OR) = 2.3; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.1–5.4], and a clear dose-response effect was observed relating meningioma risk to number of serious head injuries (P for trend = 0.01; OR for 3 injuries = 6.2; CI = 1.2–31.7). Frequency of full-mouth dental X-ray examinations after age 25 related to both glioma (P for trend = 0.04) and meningioma risk (P for trend = 0.06). Glioma, but not meningioma risk, related to duration of prior employment in jobs likely to involve high exposure to electric and magnetic fields (P for trend = 0.05). This risk was greatest for astrocytoma (OR for employment in such jobs for > 5 years = 4.3; CI = 1.2–15.6). More glioma cases had worked in the rubber industry (discordant pairs 6/1) and more worked in hot processes using plastics (9/1). More meningioma cases had jobs that involved exposure to metal dusts and fumes (discordant pairs 13/5), and six of these cases and two controls worked as machinists. Finally, there was a protective effect among glioma pairs relating to frequency of use of vitamin C and other vitamin supplements (P for trend = 0.004); the OR for use at least twice a day was 0.4 (CI = 0.2–0.8).

¹ The work was supported by Public Health Service grant P01 CA 17054 from the National Cancer Institute.

² To whom requests for reprints should be addressed.

Received 5/ 9/89. Revised 8/ 1/89. Accepted 8/ 7/89.

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