Date of filling in this questionnaire or last update: 02/11/2020
1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
Italian Oil Refinery Workers (IOREW)
Country
  • Italy
Please provide any other information on the cohort location/s if needed
4 cities included: Cagliari, Cremona, Milan, Rome
Name
Angela Cecilia Pesatori
Institution
Dept. Clinical Sciences and Community Health, University of Milan, Milan, Italy
Email
angela.pesatori@unimi.it
Personal website
https://expertise.unimi.it/get/person/angela-pesatori
Name
Dario Consonni
Institution
Epidemiology Unit, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico, Milan, Italy
Email
dario.consonni@unimi.it
Personal website
https://www.policlinico.mi.it/i-nostri-professionisti/profilo/1027/consonni-dario
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Contact Principal Investigator (name)
Angela C. Pesatori
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
Mortality study in oil refinery workers
Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)
  • External study population (includes SMR/SIR studies)
Inclusion criteria
Male workers ever employed in the plants
Exclusion criteria
None
Enrollment
Completed
Men at enrollment
5112
Women at enrollment
0
Children (<18 years) at enrollment
0
Men at last follow-up
5112
Women at last follow-up
0
Children (<18 years) at last follow-up
0
2. OUTCOME FOLLOW-UP
Type of data for outcome follow-up (please select as many as appropriate)
  • Death certificate
Death certificate (specify)
  • Underlying cause of death (ICD-9 code)
First follow-up period (provide year)
1949-1982
Last follow-up period (provide year)
1949-2012
Number of follow-ups after baseline (provide number)
2
Participation at last follow-up (if known)
98.5
3. OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURES
Source of exposure data collected (please select as many as appropriate)
  • Job-employment records
Occupational history/time frame
Follow-up period
Occupational coding performed
No
Types of exposure measurements
  • Other (specify)
Specify: Other
Ever worked in the plant (yes vs. no) + duration of employment
Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
  • Other (specify)
Specify: Other
None
Main categories
  • Dusts and fibres
  • Solvents
  • Other chemicals
Dusts and fibres | Fibres
  • Asbestos (any form of asbestos chrysotile, crocidolite, tremolite, anthophyllite, etc. or asbestos-containing material)
Solvents | Aliphatic and alicyclic hydrocarbon solvents
  • Gasoline
Solvents | Aromatic hydrocarbon solvents
  • Benzene
Other chemicals | Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs)
  • Benzo(a)pyrene
4. OUTCOMES EVALUATED
Baseline - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
  • Death certificates
Follow-up - type of outcome data collected (select more than one if applicable)
  • Death certificates
Outcome type (please select as many as appropriate)
  • Mortality
Diagnostic groups based on ICD10
  • Other (specify)
Other (specify)
All causes
6. Other Information
Possibility for linkage to data registries/data enrichment via data linkage
  • Mortality register