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. 2025 Jun 11;54(4):dyaf132.
doi: 10.1093/ije/dyaf132.

Cohort Profile: The Cancer Risk Attributable to the Body Art of Tattooing (CRABAT) study

Bayan Hosseini  1 , Rachel McCarty  1 , Marie Zins  2 , Marcel Goldberg  2 , Céline Ribet  2 , Ines Schreiver  3 , Khaled Ezzedine  4 , Joachim Schüz  1 , Milena Foerster  1
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Cohort Profile: The Cancer Risk Attributable to the Body Art of Tattooing (CRABAT) study

Bayan Hosseini et al. Int J Epidemiol. .
No abstract available

Keywords: cancer; cohort; epidemiology; metals; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; primary aromatic amines; tattoos.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
Flow chart of sample determination of the CRABAT cohort.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Bar plot of median and interquartile ranges of self-estimated tattoo surface, converted to cm2, by biological sex and stratified by age bands in the tattooed subsample with full exposure information of the CRABAT cohort.
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