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Adjustment for temporal confounders in a reanalysis of a case–control study of beryllium and lung cancer
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- Published on: 16 November 2007
- Published on: 16 November 2007Beryllium and Lung cancer: Study design artifactsShow More
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In their recent article (1), Mary Schubauer-Berigan and colleagues elaborate on a prior study (2) in order to examine potential confounding by birth cohort and hire age of the relationship between beryllium exposure and lung cancer, a worthwhile objective. The prior study is a matched nested case-control study that employs incidence density sampling to match controls to cases and uses exposure lag...
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