Beyond leukaemia and nuclear power: Swiss health sciences need a mega-cohort

Nino Künzli

doi:10.4414/smw.2014.13953

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Beyond leukaemia and nuclear power: Swiss health sciences need a mega-cohort

Nino Künzli

DOI: https://doi.org/10.4414/smw.2014.13953
Cite this as:: Swiss Med Wkly. 2014;144:w13953
Published: 23.03.2014

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Kuehni C, Spycher B. Nuclear power plants and childhood leukaemia: lessons from the past and future directions. Swiss Med Wkly. 2013;143:w13912. http://www.smw.ch/content/smw-2014-13912/
Spycher BD, Feller M, Zwahlen M, Roosli M, von der Weid NX, Hengartner H, et al. Childhood cancer and nuclear power plants in Switzerland: a census-based cohort study. Int J Epidemiol. 2011;40(5):1247–60. PubMed PMID: 21750009. Pubmed Central PMCID: 3204210.
Buffler PA, Kwan ML, Reynolds P, Urayama KY. Environmental and genetic risk factors for childhood leukemia: appraising the evidence. Cancer investigation. 2005;23(1):60–75. PubMed PMID: 15779869.
Imboden M, Probst-Hensch NM. Biobanking across the phenome – at the center of chronic disease research. BMC Public Health. 2013;13(1):1094. PubMed PMID: 24274136.
Greenland S. Divergent biases in ecologic and individual-level studies. Stat Med. 1992;11:1209–23.
Greenland S, Brenner H. Correction for no-differential miscalssification in ecologic analyses. Appl Stat.1993;42:117–26.
Greenland S, Morgenstern H. Ecologic bias, confounding, and effect modification. Int J Epidemiol. 1989;18:269–74.
Brenner H, Greenland S, Savitz D. The Effects of nondifferential confounder misclassification in ecologic studies. Epidemiology. 1992;3(5):456–9.
Cohen BL. Invited Commentary: In defense of Ecologic studies for testing a linear-No threshold theory. Am J Epidemiol. 1994;139(8):765–8.
Pershagen G, Akerblom G, Axelson O, Clavensjö B, Damber L, Desai G, et al. Residential radon exposure and lung cancer in Sweden. N Engl J Med. 1994;330:159–64.
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Probst-Hensch N, Tanner M, Kessler C, Burri C, Kunzli N. Prevention – a cost-effective way to fight the non-communicable disease epidemic: an academic perspective of the United Nations High-level NCD Meeting. Swiss Med Wkly. 2011;141:w13266. PubMed PMID: 21901650. Epub 2011/09/09.
Naess O, Hoff DA. The Norwegian Family Based Life Course (NFLC) study: data structure and potential for public health research. Int J Public Health. 2013;58(1):57–64. PubMed PMID: 22735991.
Soubry A, Hoyo C, Jirtle RL, Murphy SK. A paternal environmental legacy: Evidence for epigenetic inheritance through the male germ line. BioEssays: news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology. 2014 Jan 16. PubMed PMID: 24431278.
Mukherjee D, Coates PJ, Lorimore SA, Wright EG. Responses to ionizing radiation mediated by inflammatory mechanisms. J Pathol. 2014;232(3):289–99. PubMed PMID: 24254983.

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Künzli N. Beyond leukaemia and nuclear power: Swiss health sciences need a mega-cohort. Swiss Med Wkly [Internet]. 2014 Mar. 23 [cited 2024 Nov. 18];144(1314):w13953. Available from: https://smw.ch/index.php/smw/article/view/1849

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[1] Kuehni C, Spycher B. Nuclear power plants and childhood leukaemia: lessons from the past and future directions. Swiss Med Wkly. 2013;143:w13912. http://www.smw.ch/content/smw-2014-13912/

[2] Spycher BD, Feller M, Zwahlen M, Roosli M, von der Weid NX, Hengartner H, et al. Childhood cancer and nuclear power plants in Switzerland: a census-based cohort study. Int J Epidemiol. 2011;40(5):1247–60. PubMed PMID: 21750009. Pubmed Central PMCID: 3204210.

[3] Buffler PA, Kwan ML, Reynolds P, Urayama KY. Environmental and genetic risk factors for childhood leukemia: appraising the evidence. Cancer investigation. 2005;23(1):60–75. PubMed PMID: 15779869.

[4] Imboden M, Probst-Hensch NM. Biobanking across the phenome – at the center of chronic disease research. BMC Public Health. 2013;13(1):1094. PubMed PMID: 24274136.

[5] Greenland S. Divergent biases in ecologic and individual-level studies. Stat Med. 1992;11:1209–23.

[6] Greenland S, Brenner H. Correction for no-differential miscalssification in ecologic analyses. Appl Stat.1993;42:117–26.

[7] Greenland S, Morgenstern H. Ecologic bias, confounding, and effect modification. Int J Epidemiol. 1989;18:269–74.

[8] Brenner H, Greenland S, Savitz D. The Effects of nondifferential confounder misclassification in ecologic studies. Epidemiology. 1992;3(5):456–9.

[9] Cohen BL. Invited Commentary: In defense of Ecologic studies for testing a linear-No threshold theory. Am J Epidemiol. 1994;139(8):765–8.

[10] Pershagen G, Akerblom G, Axelson O, Clavensjö B, Damber L, Desai G, et al. Residential radon exposure and lung cancer in Sweden. N Engl J Med. 1994;330:159–64.

[11] Lagarde F, Pershagen G. Parallel analyses of individual and ecologic data on residential radon, cofactors, and lung cancer in Sweden. Am J Epidemiol. 1999;149(3):268–74. PubMed PMID: 9927223.

[12] Brenner H, Savitz D, Joeckel K, Greenland S. Effects of nondifferential exposure misclassification in ecologic studies. Am J Epidemiol. 1992;135(1):85–95.

[13] Wichmann HE, Kuhn KA, Waldenberger M, Schmelcher D, Schuffenhauer S, Meitinger T, et al. Comprehensive catalog of European biobanks. Nat Biotechnol. 2011;29(9):795–7. PubMed PMID: 21904320. Epub 2011/09/10.

[14] Probst-Hensch N, Tanner M, Kessler C, Burri C, Kunzli N. Prevention – a cost-effective way to fight the non-communicable disease epidemic: an academic perspective of the United Nations High-level NCD Meeting. Swiss Med Wkly. 2011;141:w13266. PubMed PMID: 21901650. Epub 2011/09/09.

[15] Naess O, Hoff DA. The Norwegian Family Based Life Course (NFLC) study: data structure and potential for public health research. Int J Public Health. 2013;58(1):57–64. PubMed PMID: 22735991.

[16] Soubry A, Hoyo C, Jirtle RL, Murphy SK. A paternal environmental legacy: Evidence for epigenetic inheritance through the male germ line. BioEssays: news and reviews in molecular, cellular and developmental biology. 2014 Jan 16. PubMed PMID: 24431278.

[17] Mukherjee D, Coates PJ, Lorimore SA, Wright EG. Responses to ionizing radiation mediated by inflammatory mechanisms. J Pathol. 2014;232(3):289–99. PubMed PMID: 24254983.