Diesel Exhaust Assessment
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The authors published Stewart et al. (2012) paper on the evaluation of the exposure assessment methods used in the Diesel Exhaust in Miners Study (Ogden, 2010), previously published in this journal.Abstract:
We are pleased to publish in this issue Stewart et al’s (2012) paper on the evaluation of the exposureassessment methods used in the Diesel Exhaust in Miners Study (Ogden, 2010), previously published in this journal (Stewart et al., 2010; Coble et al., 2010; Vermeulen et al., 2010a,b). Like the earlier papers, publication of Stewart et al. (2012) was delayed by legal actions initiated by industry bodies; the paper was accepted by us on 19 February 2011. Papers from this study reporting substantial increases in lung cancer at higher exposures have now been published by Attfield et al. (2012) and Silverman et al. (2012), also after legal delays.read more
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The Diesel Exhaust in Miners Study: A Nested Case–Control Study of Lung Cancer and Diesel Exhaust
Debra T. Silverman,Claudine Samanic,Jay H. Lubin,Aaron Blair,Patricia A. Stewart,Roel Vermeulen,Joseph Coble,Nathaniel Rothman,Patricia L. Schleiff,William D. Travis,Regina G. Ziegler,Sholom Wacholder,Michael D. Attfield +12 more
TL;DR: The findings provide further evidence that diesel exhaust exposure may cause lung cancer in humans and may represent a potential public health burden and an interaction between smoking and 15-year lagged cumulative REC was attenuated in the presence of high levels of the other.
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The Diesel Exhaust in Miners Study: A Cohort Mortality Study With Emphasis on Lung Cancer
Michael D. Attfield,Patricia L. Schleiff,Jay H. Lubin,Aaron Blair,Patricia A. Stewart,Roel Vermeulen,Joseph Coble,Debra T. Silverman +7 more
TL;DR: The association between diesel exhaust exposure and lung cancer risk remained after inclusion of other work-related potentially confounding exposures in the models and were robust to alternative approaches to exposure derivation.
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The Diesel Exhaust in Miners Study: I. Overview of the Exposure Assessment Process
Patricia A. Stewart,Joseph Coble,Roel Vermeulen,Patricia L. Schleiff,Aaron Blair,Jay H. Lubin,Michael D. Attfield,Debra T. Silverman +7 more
TL;DR: This report provides an overview of the exposure assessment process for an epidemiologic study that investigated mortality, with a special focus on lung cancer, associated with diesel exhaust (DE) exposure among miners, and found large differences in REC exposure levels over time and across the underground operations.
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The Diesel Exhaust in Miners Study: IV. Estimating Historical Exposures to Diesel Exhaust in Underground Non-metal Mining Facilities
Roel Vermeulen,Joseph Coble,Jay H. Lubin,Lützen Portengen,Aaron Blair,Michael D. Attfield,Debra T. Silverman,Patricia A. Stewart +7 more
TL;DR: Past CO concentration levels are modeled using selected determinants of DE exposure to derive retrospective estimates of REC exposure and the results suggested large variations in REC exposure levels both between and within the underground operations of the facilities and over time.
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The Diesel Exhaust in Miners Study: II. Exposure Monitoring Surveys and Development of Exposure Groups
Joseph Coble,Patricia A. Stewart,Roel Vermeulen,Daniel Yereb,Rebecca S. Stanevich,Aaron Blair,Debra T. Silverman,Michael D. Attfield +7 more
TL;DR: Large contrast in exposure levels measured underground versus on the surface, along with the differences between the mining facilities and between underground jobs within the facilities resulted in a wide distribution in the exposure estimates for evaluation of exposure–response relationships in the epidemiologic analyses.