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AJPH First Look, published online ahead of print Jan 31, 2007
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Leslie Stayner, PhD, James Bena, MS, Annie J. Sasco, MD, DrPH, Randall Smith, MA, Kyle Steenland, PhD, Michaela Kreuzer, PhD and Kurt Straif, MD, PhD

Leslie Stayner is with the School of Public Health, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Illinois, Chicago. James Bena is with the Department of Quantitative Health Sciences, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio. Annie J. Sasco is with the Victor Ségalen Bordeaux 2 University, Cancer Group, Bordeaux, France. Randall Smith is with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio. Kyle Steenland is with the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. Michaela Kreuzer is with Gesellschaft für Strahlenforschung–National Research Center for Environment and Health, Institute of Epidemiology, Neuherberg, Germany. Kurt Straif is with The International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyons, France.


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  		FIGURE 1—— Relative risks (with 95% confidence intervals) for a meta-analysis of individual studies from multiple locations worldwide: 2003.

Note. The horizontal scale is displayed on a common logarithmic scale.

 

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  		FIGURE 2—— Relative risks plotted against duration of exposure: 2003 meta-analysis.

Note. The diagonal line is the fitted fixed model effect of duration.

 

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  		FIGURE 3—— Funnel plot of relative risks (on a log scale) versus the inverse of the variance of the log relative risks for studies included in the 2003 meta-analysis.

Note. The horizontal line is the meta-analysis relative risk estimate, which was 1.24.

 




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