Environmental Arsenic Exposure from a Coal-burning Power Plant as a Potential Risk Factor for Nonmelanoma Skin Carcinoma: Results from a Case-Control Study in the District of Prievidza, Slovakia

To investigate the risk of arsenic exposure from a coal-burning power plant in Slovakia on nonmelanoma skin cancer (NMSC) development, a 1996–1999 population-based case-control study was conducted with 264 cases and 286 controls. Exposure assessment was based on residential history and annual emissi...

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Veröffentlicht in:	American journal of epidemiology 2002-05, Vol.155 (9), p.798-809
Hauptverfasser:	Pesch, Beate, Ranft, Ulrich, Jakubis, Pavel, Nieuwenhuijsen, Mark J., Hergemöller, Andre, Unfried, Klaus, Jakubis, Marian, Miskovic, Peter, Keegan, Tom
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adult arsenic Arsenic - adverse effects Arsenic - analysis arsenic exposure as a function of the distances of the residences to the coal-burning power plant arsenic uptake calculated by weighting food frequencies with arsenic concentrations and annual consumption of food items Asnut1 Asnut2 Asres1 Asres2 Biological and medical sciences Case-Control Studies coal Coal - adverse effects confidence interval Confounding Factors (Epidemiology) Dermatology Diet environmental exposure Environmental Exposure - analysis EXPASCAN EXPosure to ArSenic and CANcer Risk in Central and East Europe Female heavy Humans Incidence Interviews as Topic Male Medical sciences metals Middle Aged neoplasms NMSC nonmelanoma skin cancer odds ratio Power Plants Regression Analysis Residence Characteristics Risk Assessment Risk Factors same as Asnut 1 multiplied by a factor for consumption of homegrown food same as Asres1 plus the distances to work locations skin neoplasms Skin Neoplasms - chemically induced Skin Neoplasms - epidemiology Slovakia - epidemiology Tumors of the skin and soft tissue. Premalignant lesions
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