Table 3.
Relevant details glyphosate NHL epidemiologic studies.
| Authors | Subjects | Participation | Proxy respondents | % exposed; days glyphosate use among exposed | Exposure metric | RR | 95% CI |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McDuffie et al. | 517 cases | Cases 67% | Cases 21% | Cases 10% | ≥ 1 day/lifetime | 1.2 | 0.8, 1.7 |
| 1506 controls | Controls 48% | Controls 15% | Controls 9% | ||||
| Median ~ 10 days | ≤ 2 days/year | 1.0 | 0.6, 1.6 | ||||
| > 2 days/year | 2.1 | 1.3, 2.7 | |||||
| Hardell et al. | 515 cases | Cases 91% | Cases 44% | Cases 1.6% | ≥ 1 day | 3.0 | 1.1, 8.5 |
| 1141 controls | Controls 84% | Controls 44% | Controls 0.7% | 1.9⁎ | 0.6, 6.2 | ||
| Unknown frequency of use, likely very few days | |||||||
| De Roos et al. | 650 cases | 91% Nebraska | Cases 31% | Cases 5.5% | ≥ 1 day/lifetime | 2.1⁎, ! | 1.1, 4.0 |
| 89% Iowa | Controls 40% | Controls 3.2% | 1.6⁎, !! | 0.9, 2.8 | |||
| 89% Minnesota | |||||||
| 96% Kansas | |||||||
| < 7 days median use | |||||||
| 1933 controls | 85% Nebraska | ||||||
| 78% Iowa | |||||||
| 78% Minnesota | |||||||
| 93% Kansas | |||||||
| Eriksson et al. | 910 cases | Cases 81% | none | Cases 3% | ≥ 1 day/lifetime | 2.0 | 1.1, 3.7 |
| 1016 controls | Controls 65% | Controls 2% | 1.5⁎ | 0.8,2.9 | |||
| > 10 days median use | ≥ 1 day/lifetime | ||||||
| ≤ 10 years latency | 1.1 | 0.2, 5.1 | |||||
| > 10 years latency | 2.3 | 1.2, 4.4 | |||||
| < 10 days of use | 1.7 | 0.7, 4.1 | |||||
| ≥ 10 days of use | 2.4 | 1.0, 5.4 | |||||
| Orsi et al. | 244 cases | Cases 96% | None | Cases 5% | ≥ 1 day/lifetime | 1 | 0.5, 2.2 |
| 436 controls | Controls 91% | Controls 6% | |||||
| Unknown frequency of use, likely very few days | |||||||
| Cocco et al. | 2348 cases | Cases 88% | None | Cases < 1% | ≥ 1 day/lifetime | 3.1⁎⁎ | 0.6, 17.1 |
| 2462 controls | Hospital controls 81% | Controls < 1% | |||||
| Population controls 52% | |||||||
| Unknown frequency of use, likely very few days | |||||||
| Meloni et al. | 867 cases | Cases 93% | None | Cases 2.4% | ≥ 1 day/lifetime | ||
| 774 controls | Controls 62% | Controls 1.9% | High, medium, low confidence | ||||
| 1.4 | 0.6, 2.9 | ||||||
| Medium & high confidence | Medium/high confidence | ||||||
| Cases 1.0% | 1.2 | 0.4, 1.5 | |||||
| Control 0.8% | |||||||
| Unknown frequency of use, likely very few days | |||||||
| Andreotti et al. | 54,251 licensed pesticide applicators | Not applicable | none | 83% | Intensity weighted days of use | ||
| Quartile 1 | |||||||
| Median exposure 48 days | Quartile 2 | 0.8⁎ | 0.6, 1.2 | ||||
| Quartile 3 | 0.8⁎ | 0.6, 1.1 | |||||
| IQR 20 to 166 days | Quartile 4 | 0.9⁎ | 0.7, 1.2 | ||||
| 0.9⁎ | 0.6, 1.2 | ||||||
| Days of use: | |||||||
| < 1 to 14 days | |||||||
| 14 to 38 days | 0.8⁎ | 0.6, 1.0 | |||||
| 29 to 108 days | 0.9⁎ | 0.7, 1.1 | |||||
| ≥ 109 days | 0.9⁎ | 0.6, 1.1 | |||||
| 0.8⁎ | 0.6, 1.1 | ||||||
| Leon et al. | 316,210 agricultural workers | Not applicable | None | AHS 81% | ≥ 1 day all subtypes | 1.0^, ⁎ | 0.8, 1.2 |
| AGRICAN 37% | CLL/SLL | 0.9⁎ | 0.7, 1.2 | ||||
| NCAP 39% | FL | 0.8⁎ | 0.5, 1.2 | ||||
| MM | 0.9⁎ | 0.7, 1.2 | |||||
| Unknown frequency of glyphosate use | DLBCL | 1.4⁎ | 1.0, 1.9 | ||||
adjusted for other pesticides.
logistic regression estimate.
hierarchical regression estimate.
B-cell lymphoma.
In order: all NHL, chronic lymphocytic lymphoma/small lymphocytic lymphoma, follicular lymphoma, multiple myeloma/plasma cell leukemia, and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.