Abstract:Objective
As part of a UK Biobank project to investigate the causes of COPD in the UK, initial estimates have been made of the burden of COPD attributed to occupational exposures, based on methods developed to estimate cancer burden, adapted to a prevalence rather than incidence outcome measure.
Methods
Particular features of the methods were inflation of the estimates of numbers employed in occupations linked to COPD to account for retired or ex-workers whose exposure has ceased, and estimating attributable… Show more
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