Date of filling in this questionnaire or last update: 12/01/2022
1. IDENTIFICATION & BASIC DESCRIPTION
Cohort name
Cohort of U.S Garment Industry Workers Exposed to Formaldehyde
Country
  • United States
Name
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Email
bic4@cdc.gov
Name
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Email
bic4@cdc.gov
Website
  • https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/pgms/worknotify/formaldehyde2.html
Name of committee
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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 further evaluate the association between formaldehyde and leukemia.
Study design (please select as many as appropriate)
  • Retrospective cohort
Source population (please select as many as appropriate)
  • Industry / occupation-based
Comparators (please select as many as appropriate)
  • Internal study population
Enrollment
Completed
Age range at entry (main cohort)
Minimum Maximum Mean
15 80
Men at enrollment
2019
Women at enrollment
9024
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
Occupational history/time frame
Follow-up period
Methods for exposure assessment (please select as many as appropriate)
  • Data modelling
  • Measurements (external sampling, biomarkers)
Main categories
  • Other (specify)
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
6. Other Information
  • Demographics
Possibility for linkage to data registries/data enrichment via data linkage
  • Mortality register