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Occup Environ Med 2005;62:71a
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  1. Keith Palmer, Editor

      TREATMENT OF SMOKING AS A CONFOUNDER IN LUNG CANCER STUDIES

      Smoking is an important potential confounder in occupational studies of lung cancer. Several approaches have been taken to control for its effects in analysis, depending on the quality of information available. Some metrics are more elaborate than others (ever versus never smoked, pack-years, intensity of smoking, duration, etc), but how essential is it to obtain the extra detail? Richiardi et al1 have examined this using data from a case-control study on 956 men with lung cancer and 1253 population controls from northern Italy. The risks of lung cancer associated with 11 jobs and eight activities were estimated with smoking history treated in seven different ways. Odds ratios for the …

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