Incidence and influencing factors of occupational pneumoconiosis: a systematic review and meta-analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To determine the incidence of pneumoconiosis worldwide and its influencing factors.

Design

Systematic review and meta-analysis.

Setting

Cohort studies on occupational pneumoconiosis.

Participants

PubMed, Embase, the Cochrane Library and Web of Science were searched until November 2021. Studies were selected for meta-analysis if they involved at least one variable investigated as an influencing factor for the incidence of pneumoconiosis and reported either the parameters and 95% CIs of the risk fit to the data, or sufficient information to allow for the calculation of those values.

Primary outcome measures

The pooled incidence of pneumoconiosis and risk ratio (RR) and 95% CIs of influencing factors.

Results

Our meta-analysis included 19

SUBMITTER: Su X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9980323 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature