Work related asthma. A causal analysis controlling the healthy worker effect

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 603-610

  Dumas, Orianne ^a,b   Le Moual, Nicole ^a,b   Siroux, Valérie ^c,d   Heederik, Dick ^e   Garcia Aymerich, Judith ^f,g,h,i   Varraso, Raphaëlle ^a,b   Kauffmann, Francine ^a,b   Basagaña, Xavier ^f,g,h  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION HEALTH   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^f CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN ENVIRONMENTAL EPIDEMIOLOGY CREAL   (Spain)

^g HOSPITAL DEL MAR   (Spain)

^h CIBER EPIDEMIOLOGÍA Y SALUD PÚBLICA CIBERESP   (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLERGEN; IRRITANT AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; LIFE HISTORY; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARGINAL STRUCTURAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; WORKER;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ASTHMA, OCCUPATIONAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FRANCE; HEALTHY WORKER EFFECT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONS; ODDS RATIO; REFERENCE VALUES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SEX DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84882456860     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2013-101362     Document Type: Article

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