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Table 1 Selected Diesel Exhaust - Related Occupational Studies on Lung Cancer Incidence/Mortality.

From: Risk assessment of diesel exhaust and lung cancer: combining human and animal studies after adjustment for biases in epidemiological studies

Study

Effect Measure

95% C.I.

Main Source of Systematic Error

Garshick et al. [18](retrospective cohort)

RR = 1.40a

1.30 - 1.51

Confounding by smoking

Wellmann et al. [19](retrospective cohort)

SMR = 2.18 a

1.61 - 2.87

Confounding by smoking

Gustavsson et al. (20] (case-referant)

RR = 1.63b

1.14 - 2.33

Misclassification bias

  1. a comparing occupationally exposed versus non-exposed
  2. b comparing the highest diesel related NO2 category versus unexposed