Job-exposure matrices addressing lifestyle factors.
Job-exposure matrices addressing lifestyle factors.
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解决生活方式因素的工作暴露矩阵。
DOI:
10.1136/oemed-2018-105425
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发表时间:
2018
影响因子:
4.9
通讯作者:
Friesen,MelissaC
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作者:
Friesen,MelissaC
This issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine includes the description of a novel job-exposure matrix (JEM) designed to characterise job-specific differences in lifestyle risk factors developed by Bondo Petersen et al, 1 with the aim to provide lifestyle adjustment in aetiological analyses in Danish cancer registry-based studies. These lifestyle characteristics included smoking, leisure time physical activity, alcoholic beverage intake, body mass index (BMI) and fruit and vegetable consumption. These data-driven lifestyle JEMs were developed using pooled high-quality individual survey data collected over three decades on lifestyle characteristics from more than a quarter-million Danish workers. Only one similar set of lifestyle JEMs exist to my knowledge: in 2005, the Finish job-exposure matrix (FINJEM) added occupation and gender-specific JEM estimates for the time period 1995–1997 for similar lifestyle characteristics based on surveys on Finnish adult health behaviours conducted between 1993 and 1999. 2 The Danish lifestyle JEMs are the first to provide estimates for multiple time periods, employing 5-year time windows over three decades. Additionally, the Danish survey data were systematically analysed using mixed-effects statistical models that incorporated occupation classification code as a random effect to provide job group-specific estimates and incorporated age, time period, gender and data source as fixed effects to account for age-specific, year-specific and gender-specific differences. The modelling approach was similar to the framework used to developed occupational exposure JEMs from workplace exposure measurements. 3 4 Incorporating job group as a random effect employs an efficient and conservative estimation procedure that shrinks the job group prediction towards the population mean when data were sparse and/or heterogeneous and towards the job group mean when the data were more plentiful and less variable. Although built on high-quality data using an established modelling framework for JEMs, this lifestyle JEM has the same important limitations of JEMs developed for any occupational exposure. 5 The most notable is the inability to account for variability in exposures that occur within a job. This is evident by the very low intraclass correlations (0.3%–7%) observed for the Danish lifestyle JEMs. Bondo Petersen et al also found low between job group contrast, with an interquartile contrast (75th percentile divided by 25th percentile) ranging from 1.1 to 1.6. Contrasts increased for comparisons of the 95th to fifth percentile (1.1 to 2.8) and comparisons of the maximum to minimum (1.2 to 6.9). The greatest between job group contrast was observed for both the proportion of workers smoking and the amount of smoking, with low to moderate contrast for alcoholic beverage intake and leisure time physical activity and very low contrast for BMI and fruit and vegetable consumption.The low between job group contrast compared with within job group variability suggests substantial measurement error from use of job group estimates over individual estimates and that the lifestyle JEMs may be insufficient to fully control for confounding. However, the use of these lifestyle JEMs to control for lifestyle-related confounding in aetiological analyses of register-based studies where individual information is lacking represents a potential improvement over unadjusted analyses or indirect adjustment using estimated exposure strata-specific prevalence of smoking and other confounders from subsets of a study population or from other studies. The authors demonstrated internal validity for the smoking JEM, with a monotonic exposure …