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  1. Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Debra T. Silverman & Aaron E. Blair

  2. Formerly Surveillance Branch, Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV, USA

    Michael D. Attfield

  3. Biostatistics Branch, Division of Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Jay H. Lubin

  4. Formerly Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD, USA

    Patricia A. Stewart & Roel Vermeulen

  5. Stewart Exposure Assessments, LLC, Arlington, VA, USA

    Patricia A. Stewart

  6. Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Roel Vermeulen

  7. Occupational and Environmental Epidemiology Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Rm 6E142, 9609 Medical Center Drive, Rockville, MD, 20892, USA

    Debra T. Silverman

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Silverman, D.T., Attfield, M.D., Blair, A.E. et al. Re: “The hidden impact of a healthy-worker effect on the results of the Diesel Exhaust in Miners Study”. Eur J Epidemiol 31, 805–806 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-016-0188-9

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