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1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
  Cohort of U.S. Workers Exposed to Beryllium
Country
 
  • United States
Name
  Please contact NIOSH by submitting the attached form.
Email
  bic4@cdc.gov
Website
 
  • https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/pgms/worknotify/beryllium.html
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Contact Principal Investigator (name)
  Please contact NIOSH by submitting the attached form.
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Participation in pooled analyses
 
  • The cohort is potentially interested in participating in pooled analyses of (European) occupational cohort studies (note pooled analyses also includes remote decentralized analyses that would not require any transfer of primary data as well as meta-analyses).
Main aim of cohort, please briefly describe the main objectives of the cohort
  To extend follow-up of cause-specific mortality in workers at seven beryllium processing plants and to estimate associations between mortality risk and beryllium exposure.
Study design (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Prospective cohort
Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Industry / occupation-based
Enrollment
  Completed
Men at enrollment
  9199
2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Death certificate
3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Job-employment records
  • Environmental samples
Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Data modelling
  • Measurements (external sampling, biomarkers)
4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED
Baseline - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
 
  • Death certificates
Outcome type (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Mortality