A meta-analysis of asbestos and lung cancer: is better quality exposure assessment associated with steeper slopes of the exposure-response relationships?

Environ Health Perspect · 2011 · PMC3226488 · PMID 21708512

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We found a clear trend of increasing K L values when we incrementally excluded poorer-quality studies on the basis of exposure assessment criteria ( Table 4 ).

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