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Is respiratory function diminished? 
Cotes, JE; Chinn, DJ 
1991 
New York Academy of Sciences 
New York, NY 
The third wave of asbestos disease: Exposure to asbestos in place. Public health control 
149-156 
English 
1809126 
is a chapter of 786525 The third wave of asbestos disease: Exposure to asbestos in place. Public health control
An association between diminished respiratory function and an environmental agent should reflect the magnitude of the exposure and not be due to technical error, bias, confounding factors, or chance. Bias is difficult to avoid; the best course is to make comparisons within a population of exposed individuals, not between them and a control group; the population should be defined and a high response rate achieved. The principal confounding factors are age, smoking, and other environmental exposures; their effects should be fully estimated for the population in question as otherwise they will be wrongly attributed to the environmental agent. Finally, the results should be scrutinized and, if possible, a second independent study should be planned. 
Landrigan, PJ; Kazemi, H 
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 643, no. 1 
9780897666770 
The Third Wave of Asbestos Disease Exposure to Asbestos in Place 
New York, NY 
June 7-9, 1990 
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