Controlling for potential confounding by occupational exposures

Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health - Part A

Volumn 66, Issue 16-19, 2003, Pages 1591-1604

  Siemiatycki, Jack ^a,e   Krewski, Daniel ^b   Shi, Yuanli ^b   Goldberg, Mark S ^c   Nadon, Louise ^d   Lakhani, Ramzan ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

^e INRS INSTITUT ARMAND FRAPPIER   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARCINOGEN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LUNG CARCINOMA; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECORDING; WORK; ADULT; AGED; CANADA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HEART DISEASE; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG TUMOR; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NOMENCLATURE; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AGED; CANADA; CARCINOGENS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RESEARCH DESIGN; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEX FACTORS; TERMINOLOGY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0142124737     PISSN: 15287394     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15287390306428     Document Type: Article

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