Adjustment for temporal confounders in a reanalysis of a case-control study of beryllium and lung cancer

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 65, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 379-383

  Schubauer Berigan, Mary K ^a   Deddens, J A ^a   Steenland, K ^b   Sanderson, W T ^c   Petersen, M R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM;

ARTICLE; CANCER RISK; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG CANCER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; AGE; AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; EPIDEMIOLOGY; LUNG TUMOR; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BERYLLIUM; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFOUNDING FACTORS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE;

EID: 44449157220     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2007.033654     Document Type: Article

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