Occupational Exposure to Pesticides and Lung Cancer Risk: A Propensity Score Analyses.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Occupational exposure to pesticides is thought to be associated with lung cancer, but studies have yielded conflicting results. We performed a propensity score (PS) based analyses to evaluate the relationship between occupational exposure to pesticides and lung cancer risk in the Korea National Cancer Center community-based cohort study (KNCCCS).

Materials and methods

During the follow-up period, 123 incidental lung cancer cases were identified, of the 7,471 subjects in the final statistical analysis. Information about occupational exposure to pesticides and other factors was collected at enrollment (2003-2010). Cox proportional hazards regression analyses were conducted. Four PS-based approaches (i.e., matching, stratification, inverse probability-of-treatment weigh

SUBMITTER: Kim B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8756132 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature