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Re: Pesticides and Parkinson's Disease
Wendy,
Do you know why they looked at fertilizer exposure? That one
surprises me. Is fertilizer suspect and why?
Ruth Thatcher
rthatche@xxxxxxx
> Considering all index subjects and their surrogates, the level of
> overall raw agreement was 80.3% for well water consumption, 82.3%
> for farm living, 85.8% for agricultural work, 87.1% for use of
> pesticides, 87.9% for field crop farming and 91.9% for use of
> fertilizers. However, t estimates were lower, varying from 0.48
> (SE=0.20) for fertilizer use to 0.66 (SE=0.11) for crop farming.
> The level of specific agreement was 52.2% for fertilizer use,
> 64.0% for pesticide use, 71.4% for agricultural work, 73.9% for
> crop farming, 80.9% for farm living, and 83.6% for well water
> consumption.
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