Erschienen in:
01.07.2024 | RESEARCH LETTER
Occupational association with melanoma: a US ecological county-level analysis
verfasst von:
Kaden M. Thomas, Christopher R. Cullison, Henry O. Herrera, Jeremy S. Bordeaux
Erschienen in:
Archives of Dermatological Research
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Ausgabe 5/2024
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Excerpt
Although melanoma incidence in the US has been ecologically linked to county factors such as income, educational attainment, and poverty, the association between melanoma and occupation is unclear at a national scale [
1,
2]. Small scale studies have demonstrated variable and geographically limited findings [
3,
4]. Our objective is to evaluate the association between agriculture and construction workers—two occupations with ample UV exposure—and melanoma incidence nationally using a county-level ecological model. …