Prospective Investigation of Pesticide Applicators' Health (PIPAH )
Initiatives
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Monitor the exposure and health of workers in Great Britain who use pesticides as a part of their job, and to gain a better understanding of the relationship between long-term exposure to pesticides and health.
**Contact:
[email protected]**
- Start Year
- 2013
- Supplementary Information
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3108113/
Visit PIPAH
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Design
- Study design
- Population cohort
- Follow Up
- Every 5 years
- Supplementary Information
- https://www.hsl.gov.uk/media/15979/1611022%20A%20H%20Harding%20PIPAH%202017%20newsletter%20no%20bleed.pdf; HardingA-H, etal. BMJ Open 2017;7:e018212. doi:10.1136/bmjopen-2017-018212; https://www.hsl.gov.uk/media/21561/PIPAH%20Study%20Information%20Sheet.pdf
Marker Paper
Leon ME, Beane Freeman LE, Douwes J, et al. AGRICOH: a consortium of agricultural cohorts. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2011;8(5):1341-1357. doi:10.3390/ijerph8051341
PUBMED 21655123
Recruitment
- Sources of Recruitment
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- Individuals
Number of participants
- Number of participants
- 5,731
- Number of participants with biosamples
- Supplementary Information
- Study participants are professional pesticide users who are certified in the safe use of pesticides or who were born before 1965 and apply pesticides under ‘grandfather rights’. Overall response rate was 20%; participants are mostly male (98%) and the average age is 54 years
Access
Availability of data and biosamples
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Availability of access information
On the study website : https://www.hsl.gov.uk/resources/major-projects...
Supplementary Information