AGRICOH: a consortium of agricultural cohorts

Maria E Leon; Laura E Beane Freeman; Jeroen Douwes; Jane A Hoppin; Hans Kromhout; Pierre Lebailly; Karl-Christian Nordby; Marc Schenker; Joachim Schüz; Stephen C Waring; Michael C R Alavanja; Isabella Annesi-Maesano; Isabelle Baldi; Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie; Giles Ferro; Béatrice Fervers; Hilde Langseth; Leslie London; Charles F Lynch; John Mclaughlin; James A Merchant; Punam Pahwa; Torben Sigsgaard; Leslie Stayner; Catharina Wesseling; Keun-Young Yoo; Shelia H Zahm; Kurt Straif; Aaron Blair

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AGRICOH: a consortium of agricultural cohorts

Maria E Leon, Laura E Beane Freeman, Jeroen Douwes, Jane A Hoppin, Hans Kromhout, Pierre Lebailly, Karl-Christian Nordby, Marc Schenker, Joachim Schüz, Stephen C Waring, …

Int J Environ Res Public Health, Vol.8(5), pp.1341-57

05/2011

DOI: 10.3390/ijerph8051341

PMCID: PMC3108113

PMID: 21655123

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Abstract

AGRICOH is a recently formed consortium of agricultural cohort studies involving 22 cohorts from nine countries in five continents: South Africa (1), Canada (3), Costa Rica (2), USA (6), Republic of Korea (1), New Zealand (2), Denmark (1), France (3) and Norway (3). The aim of AGRICOH, initiated by the US National Cancer Institute (NCI) and coordinated by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), is to promote and sustain collaboration and pooling of data to investigate the association between a wide range of agricultural exposures and a wide range of health outcomes, with a particular focus on associations that cannot easily be addressed in individual studies because of rare exposures (e.g., use of infrequently applied chemicals) or relatively rare outcomes (e.g., certain types of cancer, neurologic and auto-immune diseases). To facilitate future projects the need for data harmonization of selected variables is required and is underway. Altogether, AGRICOH provides excellent opportunities for studying cancer, respiratory, neurologic, and auto-immune diseases as well as reproductive and allergic disorders, injuries and overall mortality in association with a wide array of exposures, prominent among these the application of pesticides.

Life Sciences

Humans

Occupational Exposure

Santé publique et épidémiologie

Agriculture

International Cooperation

Agricultural Workers' Diseases

Cohort Studies

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Title: Subtitle: AGRICOH: a consortium of agricultural cohorts
Creators: Maria E Leon - IARC
Laura E Beane Freeman
Jeroen Douwes
Jane A Hoppin
Hans Kromhout - Division of Occupational and Environmental Health, Institute for Risk Assessment
Pierre Lebailly - Groupe Régional d'Etudes sur le CANcer
Karl-Christian Nordby
Marc Schenker
Joachim Schüz - Institute for Cancer Epidemiology
Stephen C Waring
Michael C R Alavanja
Isabella Annesi-Maesano - Epidémiologie des maladies infectieuses et modélisation
Isabelle Baldi - Laboratoire santé, travail et environnement
Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie
Giles Ferro
Béatrice Fervers
Hilde Langseth
Leslie London
Charles F Lynch
John Mclaughlin
James A Merchant
Punam Pahwa
Torben Sigsgaard
Leslie Stayner
Catharina Wesseling
Keun-Young Yoo
Shelia H Zahm
Kurt Straif - IARC
Aaron Blair
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Int J Environ Res Public Health, Vol.8(5), pp.1341-57
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph8051341
PMID: 21655123
PMCID: PMC3108113
NLM abbreviation: Int J Environ Res Public Health
ISSN: 1660-4601
eISSN: 1660-4601
Language: English
Date published: 05/2011
Academic Unit: Occupational and Environmental Health; Epidemiology
Record Identifier: 9983995112002771

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