ArticleAmerican journal of industrial medicine2018
Decision rule approach applied to estimate occupational lead exposure in a case-control study of kidney cancer.
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- An algorithm for quantitatively estimating occupational endotoxin exposure in the biomarkers of exposure and effect in agriculture study: II. Application to the study population.American journal of industrial medicine · 2023Article
- Adapting Decision Rules to Estimate Occupational Metalworking Fluid Exposure in a Case-Control Study of Bladder Cancer in Spain.Annals of work exposures and health · 2022Article
- Estimation of Source-Specific Occupational Benzene Exposure in a Population-Based Case-Control Study of Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma.Annals of work exposures and health · 2019Review
- Using Decision Rules to Assess Occupational Exposure in Population-Based Studies.Current environmental health reports · 2019Review
- What Should We Do with Short-Term Jobs in Studies of Chronic Diseases?Annals of work exposures and health · 2019Article
- Case-control investigation of occupational lead exposure and kidney cancer.Occupational and environmental medicine · 2019Article
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backgroundWe developed a systematic, data-driven approach to estimate metrics of occupational exposure to lead to aid in epidemiologic analyses in a case-control study of kidney cancer.
methodsProbability of exposure to ten lead sources was assigned using decision rules developed from an extensive literature review and expert judgement. For jobs with >50% probability of exposure, we assigned source-specific frequency based on subjects' self-reported task frequencies or means of subjects' job-groups and source-specific intensity estimates of blood lead (μg/dL).
resultsIn our study, 18.7% of employed person-years were associated with high (≥80%) probability of exposure to any lead source. The most common medium (>50%) or high probability source of lead exposure was leaded gasoline (2.5% and 11.5% of employed person-years, respectively). The median blood lead attributed to occupational exposure was 3.1 μg/dL.
conclusionsThese rules can aid in future studies after population-specific adaption for geographic differences and different exposure scenarios.
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