Impact of the specificity of the exposure metric on exposure-response relationships

Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 88-94

  Friesen, Melissa C ^a   Davies, Hugh W ^a   Teschke, Kay ^a   Ostry, Aleck S ^a   Hertzman, Clyde ^a   Demers, Paul A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHENOL; PENTACHLOROPHENOL;

ARTICLE; CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY; CANCER INCIDENCE; CANCER REGISTRY; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMPLOYMENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY CANCER; LOGLINEAR MODEL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; NONHODGKIN LYMPHOMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WOOD DUST;

BRITISH COLUMBIA; CHLOROPHENOLS; COHORT STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DUST; HUMANS; KIDNEY NEOPLASMS; LYMPHOMA, NON-HODGKIN; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PENTACHLOROPHENOL; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WOOD;

EID: 33845751028     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.ede.0000249558.18960.6b     Document Type: Article

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