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American Journal of Epidemiology Vol. 153, No. 10 : 1028-1029
Copyright © 2001 by The Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

RE: "OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE AND LUNG CANCER RISK: A POPULATION-BASED CASE-REFERENT STUDY IN SWEDEN"

Dorsett D. Smith

Chest Diseases, Inc., P.S. Everett, WA 98203


   INTRODUCTION
 
Gustavsson et al. recently published a case-referent study investigating lung cancer risks from occupational exposures to a variety of possible carcinogens in Sweden (1Go). This well-designed study examined not only exposure per se but also intensity of exposure and the relative risk of lung cancer associated with different levels of exposure. The assessments of exposures were based primarily on fiber counts between 1969 and 1973 involving over 2,400 samples of 35 Swedish workplaces.

Most physicians and epidemiologists are unaware of the bias created from using such historical data. The membrane filter, phase-contrast method of counting asbestos fibers began in the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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Per Gustavsson and Robert Jakobsson

Department of Occupational Health Stockholm County Council S-171 76 Stockholm, Sweden


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Am. J. Epidemiol., May 15, 2001; 153(10): 1028 - 1029.
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