Respirable crystalline silica and lung cancer in community-based studies : impact of job-exposure matrix specifications on exposure-response relationships

OBJECTIVES: The quantitative job-exposure matrix SYN-JEM consists of various dimensions: job-specific estimates, region-specific estimates, and prior expert ratings of jobs by the semi-quantitative DOM-JEM. We analyzed the effect of different JEM dimensions on the exposure-response relationships between occupational silica exposure and lung cancer risk to investigate how these variations influence estimates of exposure by a quantitative JEM and associated health endpoints.

METHODS: Using SYN-JEM, and alternative SYN-JEM specifications with varying dimensions included, cumulative silica exposure estimates were assigned to 16 901 lung cancer cases and 20 965 controls pooled from 14 international community-based case-control studies. Exposure-response relationships based on SYN-JEM and alternative SYN-JEM specifications were analyzed using regression analyses (by quartiles and log-transformed continuous silica exposure) and generalized additive models (GAM), adjusted for age, sex, study, cigarette pack-years, time since quitting smoking, and ever employment in occupations with established lung cancer risk.

RESULTS: SYN-JEM and alternative specifications generated overall elevated and similar lung cancer odds ratios ranging from 1.13 (1st quartile) to 1.50 (4th quartile). In the categorical and log-linear analyses SYN-JEM with all dimensions included yielded the best model fit, and exclusion of job-specific estimates from SYN-JEM yielded the poorest model fit. Additionally, GAM showed the poorest model fit when excluding job-specific estimates.

CONCLUSION: The established exposure-response relationship between occupational silica exposure and lung cancer was marginally influenced by varying the dimensions of SYN-JEM. Optimized modelling of exposure-response relationships will be obtained when incorporating all relevant dimensions, namely prior rating, job, time, and region. Quantitative job-specific estimates appeared to be the most prominent dimension for this general population JEM.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:50

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Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health - 50(2024), 3 vom: 01. März, Seite 178-186

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Ohlander, Johan [VerfasserIn]
Kromhout, Hans [VerfasserIn]
Vermeulen, Roel [VerfasserIn]
Portengen, Lützen [VerfasserIn]
Kendzia, Benjamin [VerfasserIn]
Savary, Barbara [VerfasserIn]
Cavallo, Domenico [VerfasserIn]
Cattaneo, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Migliori, Enrica [VerfasserIn]
Richiardi, Lorenzo [VerfasserIn]
Plato, Nils [VerfasserIn]
Wichmann, Heinz-Erich [VerfasserIn]
Karrasch, Stefan [VerfasserIn]
Consonni, Dario [VerfasserIn]
Landi, Maria Teresa [VerfasserIn]
Caporaso, Neil E [VerfasserIn]
Siemiatycki, Jack [VerfasserIn]
Gustavsson, Per [VerfasserIn]
Jöckel, Karl-Heinz [VerfasserIn]
Ahrens, Wolfgang [VerfasserIn]
Pohlabeln, Hermann [VerfasserIn]
Fernández-Tardón, Guillermo [VerfasserIn]
Zaridze, David [VerfasserIn]
Jolanta Lissowska, Jolanta Lissowska [VerfasserIn]
Beata Swiatkowska, Beata Swiatkowska [VerfasserIn]
John K Field, John K Field [VerfasserIn]
McLaughlin, John R [VerfasserIn]
Demers, Paul A [VerfasserIn]
Pandics, Tamas [VerfasserIn]
Forastiere, Francesco [VerfasserIn]
Fabianova, Eleonora [VerfasserIn]
Schejbalova, Miriam [VerfasserIn]
Foretova, Lenka [VerfasserIn]
Janout, Vladimir [VerfasserIn]
Mates, Dana [VerfasserIn]
Barul, Christine [VerfasserIn]
Brüning, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Behrens, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Straif, Kurt [VerfasserIn]
Schüz, Joachim [VerfasserIn]
Olsson, Ann [VerfasserIn]
Peters, Susan [VerfasserIn]

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7631-86-9
Journal Article
Silicon Dioxide

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Date Completed 28.03.2024

Date Revised 28.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.5271/sjweh.4140

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NLM367553821