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RE: Mesothelioma and lung tumors attributable to asbestos among petroleum workers. Am. J. Ind. Med. 2000. 37:275-282. I. Reply to Tsai et al.'s letter to the editor and new evidence
- Source :
- American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 39:517-521
- Publication Year :
- 2001
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2001.
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Abstract
- We recently conducted a re-analysis [Gennaro et al. 2000] of two independent studies among oil refineries workers: an Italian cohort study [Gennaro et al., 1994,1995] and a Canadian case-control study [Finkelstein, 1996]. In the re-analysis we reported that maintenance workers (MW) experienced an asbestos-attributable risk (AR) of 96-100% for mesothelioma; the same subgroup of workers showed an asbestos AR for lung cancer of 49.2 (95% Confidence Interval (CI) = 26.4-72.4) in the Italian cohort study and an AR of 42.2 (95% CI=10.8-82.6) in the Canadian study. White collar workers (WCW), likely unexposed to asbestos, were considered the internal referent population in the Italian cohort study, while other workers were the comparison group in the Canadian study.
- Subjects :
- education.field_of_study
Letter to the editor
business.industry
Population
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
medicine.disease_cause
medicine.disease
Confidence interval
Asbestos
Occupational epidemiology
medicine
Mesothelioma
education
Lung cancer
business
Demography
Cohort study
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10970274 and 02713586
- Volume :
- 39
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Journal of Industrial Medicine
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........58831cdb42242d9b495a2b125258efa0