Copenhagen Airport Cohort: air pollution, manual baggage handling and health.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Copenhagen Airport Cohort 1990-2012 presents a unique data source for studies of health effects of occupational exposure to air pollution (ultrafine particles) and manual baggage handling among airport employees. We describe the extent of information in the cohort and in the follow-up based on data linkage to the comprehensive Danish nationwide health registers. In the cohort, all information is linked to the personal identification number that also is used in Denmark Statistics demographic and socioeconomic databases and in the nationwide health registers.

Participants

The cohort covers 69 175 men in unskilled positions. The exposed cohort includes men in unskilled jobs employed at Copenhagen Airport in the period 1990-2012 either as baggage handlers or in other out

SUBMITTER: Moller KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5777468 | biostudies-literature | 2017 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature