Combining a job-exposure matrix with exposure measurements to assess occupational exposure to benzene in a population cohort in Shanghai, China

Annals of Occupational Hygiene

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 80-91

  Friesen, Melissa C ^a   Coble, Joseph B ^a,b   Lu, Wei ^c   Shu, Xiao Ou ^d   Ji, Bu Tian ^a   Xue, Shouzheng ^a   Portengen, Lutzen ^e   Chow, Wong Ho ^a   Gao, Yu Tang ^e   Yang, Gong ^d   Rothman, Nathaniel ^a   Vermeulen, Roel ^a,e  

^a NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Shanghai Municipal Center for Disease Control   (China)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e SHANGHAI CANCER INSTITUTE   (China)

Author keywords

benzene; job exposure matrix; mixed effects models; retrospective exposure assessment

Indexed keywords

ACROSS TIME; B-SPLINE; BAYESIAN FRAMEWORKS; BENZENE CONCENTRATION; BENZENE MEASUREMENTS; BEST LINEAR UNBIASED PREDICTOR; CUMULATIVE EXPOSURES; EMPIRICAL BAYES ESTIMATION; EPIDEMIOLOGIC-STUDY; EXPOSURE ASSESSMENT; EXPOSURE DATA; EXPOSURE LEVEL; EXPOSURE MEASUREMENT; FIXED-EFFECTS; HEALTH AND SAFETY; HIGHLY-CORRELATED; MATRIX; MODEL PARAMETERS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PEARSON CORRELATION; RANDOM EFFECTS; SEMI-QUANTITATIVE; SHANGHAI , CHINA; TIME TRENDS; TIME-DIFFERENCES;

BENZENE; CORRELATION METHODS; ESTIMATION; HEALTH RISKS; INDUSTRY; MATRIX ALGEBRA; OCCUPATIONAL RISKS; POPULATION STATISTICS; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION;

BENZENE;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANT; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHINA; CLASSIFICATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INDUSTRY; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATION; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BAYES THEOREM; BENZENE; CHINA; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDUSTRY; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 84863052032     PISSN: 00034878     EISSN: 14753162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/annhyg/mer080     Document Type: Article

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