Mortality Among Hardmetal Production Workers: Pooled Analysis of Cohort Data From an International Investigation

Gary M Marsh1, Jeanine M Buchanich, Sarah Zimmerman

  • 1Center for Occupational Biostatistics & Epidemiology, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Drs Marsh, Buchanich, Ms Zimmerman, Drs Liu, Balmert, Ms Graves); Department of Preventative Medicine, Feinberg School of Medicine, University of Northwestern (Dr Balmert); Division of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (Drs Kennedy, Esmen); Department of Environmental Health, Medical University of Vienna, Center for Public Health, Vienna, Austria (Dr Moshammer); Institute and Policlinic for Occupational Medicine, Environmental Medicine and Prevention Research, University of Cologne, Cologne (Drs Morfeld, Erren, Groß); Institute for Occupational Medicine and Risk Assessment, Evonik Industries AG, Essen, Germany (Dr Yong); Department of Medical Sciences, Uppsala University, Uppsala (Dr Svartengren); Department of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Örebro University, Örebro, Sweden (Dr Westberg); and Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh, UK (Drs McElvenny, Cherrie).

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