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Coffee consumption and risk of lung cancer: the ICARE study

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Abbreviations

ICARE:

Investigation of occupational and environmental causes of respiratory cancers

CSI:

Comprehensive smoking index

OR:

Odds ratio

CI:

Confidence interval

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the French National Research Agency (ANR); the Foundation de France; the Foundation for Medical Research (FRM); the French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS); the Health and Sport Department (Direction Générale de la Santé et des Sports); Foundation for the Research on Cancer (ARC); the National Institute for Cancer (INCA) and the Ministry of work solidarity and civil service (Direction Générale du Travail).

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Sanikini, H., Radoï, L., Menvielle, G. et al. Coffee consumption and risk of lung cancer: the ICARE study. Eur J Epidemiol 30, 81–85 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10654-014-9976-2

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