AGRICOH: A Consortium of Agricultural Cohorts

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Maria E. Leon¹⁰  Laura E. Beane Freeman¹²  Jeroen Douwes¹⁶  Jane A. Hoppin¹³  Hans Kromhout²¹  Pierre Lebailly⁶  Karl-Christian Nordby³  Marc Schenker¹¹  Joachim Schüz¹⁰  Stephen C. Waring²²  Michael C.R. Alavanja¹²  Isabella Annesi-Maesano^2,10  Isabelle Baldi^5,10  Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie^10,14  Giles Ferro¹⁰  Bບtrice Fervers^10,20  Hilde Langseth^10,19  Leslie London^10,14  Charles F. Lynch^7,10  John McLaughlin^10,15  James A. Merchant^10,17  Punam Pahwa^4,10  Torben Sigsgaard^8,10  Leslie Stayner^1,12  Catharina Wesseling^12,18  Keun-Young Yoo^9,12  Shelia H. Zahm¹²  Kurt Straif¹⁰ 

[1] Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1603 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA; E-Mail:;Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory Diseases Department, UMR S 707 INSERM & UPMC Paris 6, Medical School Saint-Antoine, 27, rue Chaligny, 75571 Paris CEDEX 12, France; E-Mail:;National Institute of Occupational Health, P.O. Box 8149 Dep, N-0033 Oslo, Norway; E-mail:;Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Institution of Agricultural Rural and Environmental Health, University of Saskatchewan, Royal University Hospital, 300, 410-22nd Street East, Saskatoon SK S7K 5T6, Canada; E-Mail:;Institut de Santé Travail Environnement, Université Bordeaux, 351 cours de la Libération, 33405 TALENCE Cedex, Bordeaux, France; E-Mail:;Centre Régional de Lutte Contre le Cancer François Baclesse, Université de Caen, Esplanade de la Paix, 14000 Caen, France; E-Mail:;Department of Epidemiology, The University of Iowa, 2222 Old Hwy 218 S, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA; E-Mail:;School of Public Health, Department of Environmental & Occupational Medicine, University of Aarhus, Nordre Ringgade 1, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark; E-Mail:;Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 103 Daehangno, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-799, Korea; E-Mail:;Section of Environment and Radiation, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, 69372 Lyon CEDEX 08, France; E-Mails:;Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616, USA; E-Mail:;Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 6116 Executive Blvd 7004, Rockville, MD 20852, USA; E-Mails:;Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, 12 Davis Dr., Durham, NC 27703, USA; E-Mail:;Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health Research, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, Cape Town, South Africa; E-Mails:;Cancer Care Ontario, 620 University Avenue Toronto Ontario M5G 2L7, Canada; E-Mail:;Centre for Public Health Research, School of Public Health, Massey University, P.O. Box 756, Wellington 6140, New Zealand; E-Mail:;College of Public Health, General Hospital, The University of Iowa, 2222 Old Hwy 218 S, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA; E-Mail:;Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET), Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Calle 9, Avenidas 0 y 9 86-3000, Costa Rica; E-Mail:;Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, P.O. Box 5313 Majorstuen, N-0304 Oslo, Norway; E-Mail:;Unité Cancer et Environnement, Centre Léon Bérard, 28 rue Laennec, 69008 Lyon, France; E-Mail:;Environmental Epidemiology Division (IRAS), Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80125, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands; E-Mail:;Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Epidemiology Research Centre, Webmaster, RL4, 1000 N. Oak Ave., Marshfield, WI 54449, USA; E-Mail:

关键词: agriculture;    cohort studies;    consortium;    pesticides;    occupational exposures;   

DOI  :  10.3390/ijerph8051341

来源: mdpi

【 摘 要 】

AGRICOH is a recently formed consortium of agricultural cohort studies involving 22 cohorts from nine countries in five continents: South Africa (1), Canada (3), Costa Rica (2), USA (6), Republic of Korea (1), New Zealand (2), Denmark (1), France (3) and Norway (3). The aim of AGRICOH, initiated by the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) and coordinated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), is to promote and sustain collaboration and pooling of data to investigate the association between a wide range of agricultural exposures and a wide range of health outcomes, with a particular focus on associations that cannot easily be addressed in individual studies because of rare exposures (e.g., use of infrequently applied chemicals) or relatively rare outcomes (e.g., certain types of cancer, neurologic and auto-immune diseases). To facilitate future projects the need for data harmonization of selected variables is required and is underway. Altogether, AGRICOH provides excellent opportunities for studying cancer, respiratory, neurologic, and auto-immune diseases as well as reproductive and allergic disorders, injuries and overall mortality in association with a wide array of exposures, prominent among these the application of pesticides.

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