Performance of different exposure assessment approaches in a study of bitumen fume exposure and lung cancer mortality

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 40-48

  Burstyn, Igor ^a,b   Boffetta, Paolo ^b   Kauppinen, Timo ^c   Heikkilä, Pirjo ^c   Svane, Ole ^d   Partanen, Timo ^c   Stücker, Isabelle ^e   Frentzel Beyme, Rainer ^f   Ahrens, Wolfgang ^f   Merzenich, Hiltrud ^f   Heederik, Dick ^a   Hooiveld, Mariette ^a   Brunekreef, Bert ^a   Langard, Sverre ^g   Randem, Britt G ^g   Järvholm, Bengt ^h   Bergdahl, Ingvar A ^h   Shaham, Judith ⁱ   Ferro, Gilles ^b   Kromhout, Hans ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INTERNATIONAL AGENCY FOR RESEARCH ON CANCER   (France)

^c FINNISH INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Finland)

^d Danish Working Environment Service   (Denmark)

^e INSERM   (France)

^f LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR PREVENTION RESEARCH AND EPIDEMIOLOGY BIPS   (Germany)

^g OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^h UMEÅ UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

ⁱ Occupational Health and Rehabilitation Institute Israel   (Israel)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Exposure reconstruction methodology; Model fit; Quantitative exposure assessment

Indexed keywords

ASPHALT;

ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FUME; HUMAN; LATENT PERIOD; LUNG CANCER; MALE; MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL CANCER; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

COHORT STUDIES; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0037228290     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.10168     Document Type: Article

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