| 1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION |
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Cohort name
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Norwegian silicon carbide cohort
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Country
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Name
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Merete Drevvatne Bugge
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Institution
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STAMI National Institute of Occupational Health
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Email
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mdb@stami.no
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Phone
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+47 23195100
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Name of committee
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REK Sør-Øst
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Upload files
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Contact Principal Investigator (name)
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Merete Drevvatne Bugge
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Participation in pooled analyses
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- 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).
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Main aim of cohort, please briefly describe the main objectives of the cohort
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Cancer and mortality studies
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Study design (please select as many as appropriate)
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Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
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- Industry / occupation-based
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Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)
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- Internal study population
- External study population (includes SMR/SIR studies)
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Inclusion criteria
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Worked in the industry > 6 months
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Enrollment
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Completed
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Age range at entry (main cohort)
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Mean |
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65 |
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Men at enrollment
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2300
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Women at enrollment
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0
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Children (<18 years) at enrollment
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0
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Men at last follow-up
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2300
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| 2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP |
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Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
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- Use of registers (specify)
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Specify: Use of registers
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- Cancer registry of Norway
- Causes of death registry
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First follow-up period (provide year)
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1996
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Last follow-up period (provide year)
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2015
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Number of follow-ups after baseline (provide number)
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3
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Participation at last follow-up (if known)
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100
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| 3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES |
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Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
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Occupational history/time frame
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Other (specify)
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Specify: Other
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From company personnel registers
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Occupational coding performed
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Yes
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Occupation (specify coding system used)
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- Plant specific coding system
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Types of exposure measurements
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Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
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Specify: Job Exposure Matrix / Other
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Norwegian silicon carbide JEM
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| 4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED |
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Follow-up - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
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Registry-based
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- Cancer incidence
- Mortality register
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Outcome type (please select as many as appropriate)
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Diagnostic groups based on ICD10
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- C + D Neoplasms
- I Heart disease
- J Respiratory disease
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C + D Neoplasms
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J Respiratory disease
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- Chronic Bronchitis
- Emphysema
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- Asthma
- Pneumoconiosis
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Comments
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The markings concerns studies already done or ongoing. At new studies there will be possible to chose other diagnose groups.
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| 6. Other Information |
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Possibility for linkage to data registries/data enrichment via data linkage
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- Cancer incidence
- Mortality register
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