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1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
  Cohort of U.S. Pentachlorophenol Production Workers
Country
 
  • United States
Name
  Please contact NIOSH by submitting the attached form.
Email
  bic4@cdc.gov
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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 Study the Possible Long-Term Health Effects of Phenoxy Herbicides and Contaminants, including effects on workers at fourteen plants which had manufactured chlorophenols
Study design (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Prospective cohort
Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Industry / occupation-based
Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Internal study population
Enrollment
  Completed
Men at enrollment
  2122
Comments
  Male vs female participation not specified.
2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Use of registers (specify)
Specify: Use of registers
 
  • NIOSH Dioxin Registry
3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
 
  • Registry-based
Main categories
 
  • Other (specify)
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