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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL MEDICINE
Volume 49, Issue 9, Pages 709-718Publisher
WILEY-LISS
DOI: 10.1002/ajim.20344
Keywords
diesel exhaust; lung cancer; multiple imputation; smoking
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA79725] Funding Source: Medline
- PHS HHS [CCR115818] Funding Source: Medline
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Background: An association between diesel exhaust exposure and lung cancer mortality in a large retrospective cohort study of US railroad workers has previously been reported. However, specific information regarding cigarette smoking was unavailable. Methods: Birth cohort, age, job, and cause of death specific smoking histories from a companion case-control study were used to impute smoking behavior for 39,388 railroad workers who died 1959-1996. Mortality analyses incorporated the effect of smoking on lung cancer risk. Results: The smoking adjusted relative risk of lung cancer in railroad workers exposed to diesel exhaust compared to unexposed workers was 1.22 (95% CI = 1.12-1.32), and unadjusted for smoking the relative risk was 1.35 (95% CI = 1.24-1.46). Conclusions: These analyses illustrate the use of imputation in record-based occupational health studies to assess potential confounding due to smoking. In this cohort, small differences in smoking behavior between diesel exposed and unexposed workers did not explain the elevated lung cancer risk.
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