A reevaluation of selected mortality risks in the updated NCI/NIOSH acrylonitrile cohort study

Frontiers in Public Health

Public Health

Adam Kruchten¹  Gary M. Marsh² 

[1] Center for Occupational Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Department of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, United States;null;

关键词: acrylonitrile;    cancer;    cohort study;    mortality;    industrial workers;    bladder cancer;    lung cancer;    mesothelioma;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpubh.2023.1122346

 received in 2022-12-12, accepted in 2023-02-24,  发布年份 2023

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

ObjectivesThe study aimed to determine whether the National Cancer Institute's (NCI) recent suggestion of associations between acrylonitrile (AN) exposure and mortality in lung and bladder cancer and pneumonitis is robust to alternative methods of data analysis.Materials and methodsWe used the Richardson method to indirectly adjust risk ratios (RRs) in relation to AN exposure for potential confounding by smoking and asbestos. We repeated key analyses omitting workers from Plant 4 to account for possible local, historical shipyard-related asbestos exposures.ResultsThe adjustment of lung cancer RRs for confounding by both smoking and asbestos and omitting Plant 4 workers yielded mostly decreased RRs and much less evidence of a positive association with cumulative AN exposure.ConclusionOverall, our reanalysis provided little evidence to support NCI's suggestion of associations between AN exposure and mortality in lung and bladder cancer and pneumonitis.

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