This issue of Occupational and Environmental Medicine includes the description of a novel job-exposure matrix (JEM) designed to characterise job-specific differences in lifestyle risk factors developed by Bondo Petersen et al,1 with the aim to provide lifestyle adjustment in aetiological analyses in Danish cancer registry-based studies. These lifestyle characteristics included smoking, leisure time physical activity, alcoholic beverage intake, body mass index (BMI) and fruit and vegetable consumption.
These data-driven lifestyle JEMs were developed using pooled high-quality individual survey data collected over three decades on lifestyle characteristics from more than a quarter-million Danish workers. Only one similar set of lifestyle JEMs exist to my knowledge: in 2005, the Finish job-exposure matrix (FINJEM) added occupation and gender-specific JEM estimates for the time period 1995–1997 for similar lifestyle characteristics based on surveys on Finnish adult health behaviours conducted between 1993 and 1999.2 The Danish lifestyle JEMs are the first to...
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