Construction of residential histories to estimate long-term environmental exposures in the California Teachers Study cohort.

ABSTRACT: Environmental epidemiologic studies using geospatial data often estimate exposure at a participant's residence upon enrollment, but mobility during the exposure period can lead to misclassification. We aimed to mitigate this issue by constructing residential histories for participants in the California Teachers Study through follow-up (1995-2018). Address records have been collected from the US Postal Service, LexisNexis, Experian, and California Cancer Registry. We identified records of the same address based on geo-coordinate distance (≤250 m) and street name similarity. We consolidated addresses, prioritizing those confirmed by participants during follow-up questionnaires, and estimating the duration lived at each address using dates associated with records (e.g., date-first-seen). Duri

SUBMITTER: Medgyesi DN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11377857 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature