AGRICOH: A Consortium of Agricultural Cohorts
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Maria E. Leon 1,2,*,†, Laura E. Beane Freeman 3,‡, Jeroen Douwes 4,‡, Jane A. Hoppin 5,‡, Hans Kromhout 6,‡, Pierre Lebailly 7,‡, Karl-Christian Nordby 8,‡, Marc Schenker 9,‡, Joachim Schüz 1,2,‡, Stephen C. Waring 10,‡, Michael C.R. Alavanja 3, Isabella Annesi-Maesano 11, Isabelle Baldi 12, Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie 13, Giles Ferro 1,2, Béatrice Fervers 14, Hilde Langseth 15, Leslie London 13, Charles F. Lynch 16
, John McLaughlin 17, James A. Merchant 18, Punam Pahwa 19, Torben Sigsgaard 20, Leslie Thomas Stayner 21, Catharina Wesseling 22, Keun-Young Yoo 23, Shelia H. Zahm 3, Kurt Straif 1,2 and Aaron Blair 3
Maria E. Leon 1,2,*,†, Laura E. Beane Freeman 3,‡, Jeroen Douwes 4,‡, Jane A. Hoppin 5,‡, Hans Kromhout 6,‡, Pierre Lebailly 7,‡, Karl-Christian Nordby 8,‡, Marc Schenker 9,‡, Joachim Schüz 1,2,‡, Stephen C. Waring 10,‡, Michael C.R. Alavanja 3, Isabella Annesi-Maesano 11, Isabelle Baldi 12, Mohamed Aqiel Dalvie 13, Giles Ferro 1,2, Béatrice Fervers 14, Hilde Langseth 15, Leslie London 13, Charles F. Lynch 16, John McLaughlin 17, James A. Merchant 18, Punam Pahwa 19, Torben Sigsgaard 20, Leslie Thomas Stayner 21, Catharina Wesseling 22, Keun-Young Yoo 23, Shelia H. Zahm 3, Kurt Straif 1,2 and Aaron Blair 3
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Section of Environment and Radiation, International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, 69372 Lyon CEDEX 08, France
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Section of IARC Monographs (KS), International Agency for Research on Cancer, 150 Cours Albert Thomas, 69372 Lyon CEDEX 08, France
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Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, 6116 Executive Blvd 7004, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
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Centre for Public Health Research, School of Public Health, Massey University, P.O. Box 756, Wellington 6140, New Zealand
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Epidemiology Branch, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle Park, 12 Davis Dr., Durham, NC 27703, USA
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Environmental Epidemiology Division (IRAS), Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80125, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Centre Régional de Lutte Contre le Cancer François Baclesse, Université de Caen, Esplanade de la Paix, 14000 Caen, France
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National Institute of Occupational Health, P.O. Box 8149 Dep, N-0033 Oslo, Norway
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Department of Public Health Sciences, School of Medicine, University of California, Davis One Shields Avenue Davis, CA 95616, USA
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Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Epidemiology Research Centre, Webmaster, RL4, 1000 N. Oak Ave., Marshfield, WI 54449, USA
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Epidemiology of Allergic and Respiratory Diseases Department, UMR S 707 INSERM & UPMC Paris 6, Medical School Saint-Antoine, 27, rue Chaligny, 75571 Paris CEDEX 12, France
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Institut de Santé Travail Environnement, Université Bordeaux, 351 cours de la Libération, 33405 TALENCE Cedex, Bordeaux, France
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Centre for Occupational and Environmental Health Research, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7701, Cape Town, South Africa
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Unité Cancer et Environnement, Centre Léon Bérard, 28 rue Laennec, 69008 Lyon, France
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Cancer Registry of Norway, Institute of Population-Based Cancer Research, P.O. Box 5313 Majorstuen, N-0304 Oslo, Norway
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Department of Epidemiology, The University of Iowa, 2222 Old Hwy 218 S, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Cancer Care Ontario, 620 University Avenue Toronto Ontario M5G 2L7, Canada
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College of Public Health, General Hospital, The University of Iowa, 2222 Old Hwy 218 S, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA
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Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Institution of Agricultural Rural and Environmental Health, University of Saskatchewan, Royal University Hospital, 300, 410-22nd Street East, Saskatoon SK S7K 5T6, Canada
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School of Public Health, Department of Environmental & Occupational Medicine, University of Aarhus, Nordre Ringgade 1, DK-8000 Aarhus C, Denmark
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Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Illinois at Chicago, 1603 West Taylor Street, Chicago, IL 60612, USA
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Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET), Universidad Nacional, Heredia, Calle 9, Avenidas 0 y 9 86-3000, Costa Rica
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Department of Preventive Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, 3 Daehangno, Chongno-gu, Seoul 110-799, Korea
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Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
†
AGRICOH coordinator.
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AGRICOH steering committee member.
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8(5), 1341-1357; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph8051341
Received: 1 March 2011 / Revised: 22 April 2011 / Accepted: 25 April 2011 / Published: 29 April 2011
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pesticides and Health)
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.
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Leon, M.E.; Freeman, L.E.B.; Douwes, J.; Hoppin, J.A.; Kromhout, H.; Lebailly, P.; Nordby, K.-C.; Schenker, M.; Schüz, J.; Waring, S.C.; Alavanja, M.C.; Annesi-Maesano, I.; Baldi, I.; Dalvie, M.A.; Ferro, G.; Fervers, B.; Langseth, H.; London, L.; Lynch, C.F.; McLaughlin, J.; Merchant, J.A.; Pahwa, P.; Sigsgaard, T.; Stayner, L.T.; Wesseling, C.; Yoo, K.-Y.; Zahm, S.H.; Straif, K.; Blair, A. AGRICOH: A Consortium of Agricultural Cohorts. Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2011, 8, 1341-1357.
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