Open AccessOverall and cause-specific mortality in a cohort of farmers and their spouses
Author(s) -
Srishti Shrestha,
Christine G. Parks,
Alexander P. Keil,
David M. Umbach,
Catherine C. Lerro,
Charles F. Lynch,
Honglei Chen,
Aaron Blair,
Stella Koutros,
Jonathan N. Hofmann,
Laura E. Beane Freeman,
Dale P. Sandler
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
occupational and environmental medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.458
H-Index - 141
eISSN - 1470-7926
pISSN - 1351-0711
DOI - 10.1136/oemed-2019-105724
Subject(s) - medicine , population , demography , cohort , mortality rate , standardized mortality ratio , relative risk , cohort study , gerontology , environmental health , confidence interval , surgery , sociology
Lower mortality rates compared with the general population have been reported for Agricultural Health Study (AHS) participants (enrolled 1993-1997) followed through 2007. We extended analysis of mortality among AHS participants (51 502 private pesticide applicators, their 31 867 spouses and 4677 commercial pesticide applicators from North Carolina and Iowa) through 2015 and compared results using several analytical approaches.