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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 116, No. 6: 981-989
Copyright © 1982 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

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THE EFFICACY OF A POPULATION-BASED COMPARISON GROUP IN CROSS-SECTIONAL OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH STUDIES

PAUL A. SCHULTE, MITCHELL SINGAL, WILLIAM T. STRINGER, JOHN R. KOMINSKY and PHILIP J. LANDRIGAN

From the Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health Cincinnati, OH

Send reprint requests to P. A. Schulte, Mail Stop F-10, NIOSH, 4676 Columbia Parkway, Cincinnati, OH 45226

The availability and the choice of appropriate comparison groups are essential for valid occupational epidemiologic studies. Too often, however, adequate comparison groups cannot easily be found within a workplace environment or extracted from the general population. An evaluation of the efficacy of using a pool of comparison subjects from the Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (HANES) was performed on data gathered by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in 1979. Comparison groups from the HANES pool were derived for 246 workers at four different commercial/industrial facilities in the Niagara Falls, New York, area and the comparability between the groups was assessed for several demographic, behavioral, and biomedical variables. The HANES groups exhibited a high degree of comparability with regard to most variables, excluding ancestry. The HANES pool may serve as a useful source of subjects to allow for the comparison of disease rates where occupational exposure is the key distinguishing feature between groups.

cross-sectional studies; epldemiologic methods; occupational diseases


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