Open AccessCause-specific mortality and cancer incidence among 28 300 Royal Norwegian Navy servicemen followed for more than 50 years
Author(s) -
Leif Åge Strand,
Jan Ivar Martinsen,
Vilhelm F. Koefoed,
Jan Sommerfelt-Pettersen,
Tom Kristian Grimsrud
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of work, environment and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.621
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1795-990X
pISSN - 0355-3140
DOI - 10.5271/sjweh.3140
Subject(s) - medicine , standardized mortality ratio , cancer , incidence (geometry) , relative risk , cohort , poisson regression , demography , cohort study , lung cancer , mortality rate , rate ratio , population , environmental health , confidence interval , physics , sociology , optics
The aim of this study was to examine mortality and cancer incidence in a cohort of 28,300 military servicemen known, from personnel files, to have served in the Royal Norwegian Navy during 1950-2004.