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SUBMITTER: Costello S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6269247 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Costello Sadie S Attfield Michael D MD Lubin Jay H JH Neophytou Andreas M AM Blair Aaron A Brown Daniel M DM Stewart Patricia A PA Vermeulen Roel R Eisen Ellen A EA Silverman Debra T DT
American journal of epidemiology 20181201 12
Diesel exhaust is a suggested risk factor for ischemic heart disease (IHD), but evidence from cohorts using quantitative exposure metrics is limited. We examined the impact of respirable elemental carbon (REC), a key surrogate for diesel exhaust, and respirable dust (RD) on IHD mortality, using data from the Diesel Exhaust in Miners Study in the United States. Using data from a cohort of male workers followed from 1948-1968 until 1997, we fitted Cox proportional hazards models to estimate hazard ...[more]