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  • Title: Quantitative importance of asbestos as a cause of lung cancer in a Swedish industrial city: a case-referent study.
    Author: Järvholm B, Larsson S, Hagberg S, Olling S, Ryd W, Torén K.
    Journal: Eur Respir J; 1993 Oct; 6(9):1271-5. PubMed ID: 8287942.
    Abstract:
    We wanted to assess the quantitative importance of asbestos as a cause of lung cancer. In a case-referent study, the exposure to asbestos, tobacco smoke and some other occupational exposures were compared between 147 cases of lung cancer (100 men, 47 women), 111 hospital referents, and 109 population referents, all below the age of 75 yrs and living in an industrial city. The attributable risk of lung cancer due to asbestos exposure was 16% in men (95% confidence interval 1-31%). No woman had occupational exposure to asbestos. We conclude that in the mid 1980's tobacco smoking was the major attributable risk, being 95% for men and 78% for women, but that in men asbestos was an appreciable contributing factor in the general population of a Swedish industrial city.
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