ArticleJournal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England)2020
The riddle of shiftwork and disturbed chronobiology: a case study of landmark smoking data demonstrates fallacies of not considering the ubiquity of an exposure.
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- Impact of Circadian Rhythms on the Development and Clinical Management of Genitourinary Cancers.Frontiers in oncology · 2022Review
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Abstract
backgroundFailing to integrate all sources of a ubiquitous hazard candidate may explain inconsistent and/or null, and overall misleading, results in epidemiological studies such as those related to shift-work.
methodsWe explore this rationale on the assumption that Doll and Hill had confined their 1950 landmark study to smoking at workplaces alone. We assess how non-differential, or how differential, underestimation of exposure could have biased computed risks.
resultsSystematically unappreciated exposures at play could have led to substantial information bias. Beyond affecting the magnitude of risks, not even the direction of risk distortion would have been predictable.
conclusionsDisturbed chronobiology research should consider cumulative doses from all walks of life. This is a
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