abstract：:This study measured the validity of work histories obtained by interview with 84 female workers and examined specific factors which influence such validity. This is the first validation of work histories collected by interviews with women. The validity of each interview was assessed over a period of 29 years, from 195...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Brisson C,Vézina M,Bernard PM,Gingras S

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bassett Farm Safety and Health Project was started in 1980 when Drs. May and Pratt made clinical observations on respiratory illnesses in farmers. The initial work involved the investigation of clinical syndromes associated with dust exposures and, from there, environmental dust studies. The current scope of work ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Pratt DS

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Health Hazard Evaluation was conducted by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health in an area of a large chemical plant that manufactured the stilbene derivative 4,4'-diaminostilbene-2,2'-disulfonic acid, an intermediate used for the production of optical brightening agents. Men employed in the area...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Quinn MM,Wegman DH,Greaves IA,Hammond SK,Ellenbecker MJ,Spark RF,Smith ER

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pesticides may be transformed by chemical and biological processes or transported from the site of application by several processes including runoff, movement through the soil to ground water, volatilization, transport on soil particles, and wind erosion. Contamination of water by pesticide residues is a matter of con...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Plimmer JR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 30 year-old male polyurethane worker was exposed to an accidental spill of 4,4'-methylene-bis-2-chloroaniline (MBOCA) at a plant producing MBOCA-cured plastic products. Exposure to MBOCA is significant in that this compound is a known animal carcinogen and a suspected human carcinogen. The employee was sprayed over ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Osorio AM,Clapp D,Ward E,Wilson HK,Cocker J

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A statistically significant temporary reduction on pulmonary function was measured with spirometry in stevedores on a roll-on-roll-off ro-ro ship who were exposed to diesel exhausts from trucks during a work shift. When all trucks were equipped with specially designed microfilters mounted on the exhaust pipes, this im...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Ulfvarson U,Alexandersson R

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An occupational injury surveillance project was conducted in 15 of Iowa's 99 counties. Trained abstractors reviewed the medical records of persons admitted for trauma to hospitals during 1983. Based on these chart reviews, subsequent mail-out questionnaires and phone contacts were made, and rate estimates for occupati...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Fuortes LJ,Merchant JA,Van Lier SF,Burmeister LF,Muldoon J

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To study whether low-level exposure to asbestos contributes to lung cancer risk, the asbestos body (AB) content in lung tissue was measured in 476 patients with lung cancer and 369 patients with other diseases, all from a Japanese industrialized city. Eleven patients with histologically confirmed asbestosis were inclu...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Hiraoka K,Horie A,Kido M

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupational health studies of agricultural workers have generally excluded migrant and seasonal farmworkers, and this population experiences a high degree of health risk from agricultural exposures. A survey of dermatologic disorders among migrant and seasonal farmworkers will be used to illustrate this point. Data f...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Schenker MB,McCurdy SA

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Standardized proportional mortality ratios and mortality odds ratios were calculated for 583 deaths between 1950 and 1986 among employees who had worked for at least 10 years at a facility manufacturing missile and aircraft guidance systems. There was a statistically significant excess of brain cancer proportional mor...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Park RM,Silverstein MA,Green MA,Mirer FE

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several studies have indicated an increased risk for cancer of the urinary bladder among hairdressers. In a Danish linkage between census data and cancer register data both male and female hairdressers have an elevated risk for bladder cancer. The risk for lung cancer is close to unity, indicating that occupational fa...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Skov T,Andersen A,Malker H,Pukkala E,Weiner J,Lynge E

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-six car painters and 115 control persons participated in a follow-up investigation 6 years after the initial study, including measurement of lung function (dynamic spirometry and nitrogen washout test) and estimation of exposure to diisocyanates based on individual working routines, use of respiratory protectio...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Tornling G,Alexandersson R,Hedenstierna G,Plato N

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, implementation of dust-suppressing measures in USSR asbestos mills has led to significant decrease in dust levels. New cases of asbestosis and asbestotuberculosis in annual medical examinations have not been detected. For prevention of possible future incidence of these diseases, we plan to concentrat...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Kogan FM,Polzik EV

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic acids and bases are among the most frequently used chemicals in the manufacturing industries. However, the toxicology of only a number of them has been fully characterized, and for fewer still have occupational exposure limits been established. This paper reviews the acute and chronic toxicity data of the orga...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Leung HW,Paustenbach DJ

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several research projects on work-related respiratory diseases have been conducted in Finland. One of the largest, "Farmers' Occupational Health Programme," was conducted by the Social Insurance Institution of Finland during 1973-1983 in cooperation with Kuopio Regional Institute of Occupational Health and the Nationa...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Terho EO

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand better the effects of noise levels associated with dairy farming, we randomly selected 49 full-time dairy farmers from an established cohort. Medical and occupational histories were taken and standard audiometric testing was done. Forty-six males (94%) and three females (6%) with a mean age of 43.5 (+/- ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： May JJ,Marvel M,Regan M,Marvel LH,Pratt DS

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Occupational health standards in the Scandinavian countries are of national concern and may thus vary from country to country. There is an internordic collaboration in the scientific criteria work, but there are also national formal procedures for standard setting. There is a greater tendency to accept eye, nose, or t...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Holmberg B,Lundberg P

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epidemiological investigation was undertaken to determine the relationship between silicosis in hardrock miners in Ontario and cumulative exposure to silica (crystalline silica--alpha quartz) dust. This first report describes the cohort, the method of classifying the radiographs, and the identification of a case of...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Muir DC,Shannon HS,Julian JA,Verma DK,Sebestyen A,Bernholz CD

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article the material collected for a case-control study is analyzed in order to evaluate the existence of relationships between organic solvent exposure and the entitlement to disability benefits due to neuropsychiatric disorders. Questionnaires were used to collect information on 252 cases receiving compensat...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： van Vliet C,Swaen GM,Volovics A,Slangen JJ,Meijers JM,de Boorder T,Sturmans F

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nineteen articles published between 1980 and 1986 were reviewed to determine the prognosis for returning to previous employment following back surgery. Seventy-seven percent of the cases reviewed returned to their previous level of employment. Nearly 11% of cases had additional back surgery during the period of follow...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Taylor ME

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highway maintenance workers (HMWs) have been exposed to a broad range of potentially toxic substances, including diesel fuels and exhaust, asphalts and tars, herbicides, gasoline, polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons, benzene, and lead. The number of current and former state, county, and municipal HMWs in the United Stat...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Bender AP,Parker DL,Johnson RA,Scharber WK,Williams AN,Marbury MC,Mandel JS

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a survey of chronic respiratory symptoms and airflow obstruction of a rural population aged 20-65 years, the effects of both farming and, in particular, the exposure to grain dust on the respiratory health of the people was examined. Of the 1,892 subjects (82% of the eligible population) studied, 924 were males and...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Manfreda J,Cheang M,Warren CP

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cause-specific mortality was evaluated by period of hire for 37,682 male chemical workers in order to test the hypothesis that employees hired during World War II (1941-1945) were at increased risk for selected causes of death. One recent study of refinery workers reported that those hired during the war years had exp...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Bond GG,Lipps TE,Cook RR

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cholinesterase activity measurements for 542 California agricultural pesticide applicators under medical supervision during the first 9 months of 1985 were analyzed. Twenty-six workers, 4.8% of the sample, had cholinesterase values at or below the California threshold values for removal from continued exposure to chol...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Ames RG,Brown SK,Mengle DC,Kahn E,Stratton JW,Jackson RJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An analysis of reported birth record variables by parental occupation suggests that certain birth outcomes may identify toxic or carcinogenic occupational exposures of the parents. Fathers coded to an asbestos and insulation worker rubric sired fewer plural births, and more stillbirths than expected. A number of other...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Milham S Jr

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the investigation was to study whether laboratory work or other types of chemical work at one petrochemical plant were associated with an increased risk for miscarriage or reduced birthweight. The study was based on questionnaire data for 95% of the women working at the plant between 1973 and 1987. A statis...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Axelsson G,Rylander R

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A death certificate mortality odds ratio study of seven cancer sites was conducted by using 1979-1984 data on Illinois deaths in white and black males. Cancer sites selected include stomach, pancreas, lung, prostate, bladder, brain, and non-Hodgkin's lymphomas. This surveillance study was undertaken to detect occupati...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Mallin K,Rubin M,Joo E

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This retrospective analysis reviews the clinical experience of a major urban referral hospital with diffuse malignant pleural mesothelioma during the 14-year period from 1973 through 1986. Seventy-five cases of definite or equivocal mesothelioma were identified. There were four cases of primary malignant peritoneal me...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Shepherd KE,Oliver LC,Kazemi H

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study examines the association between asbestos-related pleural plaques and lung function in a group of workers with occupational exposure to asbestos. Exposure, smoking, and respiratory histories, chest radiographs, flow-volume loops, and single breath DLCOs were obtained on 383 railroad workers. A score ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Oliver LC,Eisen EA,Greene R,Sprince NL

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conventional occupational mortality analysis, using underlying cause of death coding, underestimates the contribution of those chronic diseases which are mentioned on the death certificate but which usually do not appear as underlying cause of death. Proportionate occupational mortality analysis, using all the mention...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Milham S Jr

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For various reasons, data on smoking are frequently missing, or only partially available, in retrospective epidemiologic studies of occupational risk factors. In such situations, indirect methods may be used to evaluate the magnitude and direction of the potentially confounding effects of smoking. Such an evaluation c...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Axelson O,Steenland K

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between various occupational exposures and brain cancer was investigated in a case-control study using mortality data from 202 males who died in East Texas from gliomas in 1969-1978 and 238 male controls randomly selected from all deaths in East Texas in 1969-1978. Using the occupational classificatio...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Speers MA,Dobbins JG,Miller VS

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lung tissue of a worker in an abrasive manufacturing plant, whose duration of dust exposure was about 10 years, was analyzed by means of bulk analysis and in situ analytical electron microanalysis. The content of the total dust in the lung was 120 mg/g of the dried lung tissue. This value is close to the average conce...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Hayashi H,Kajita A

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Computerized hospital discharge diagnoses are useful for occupational disease surveillance. One thousand one hundred twenty-six individuals with asbestosis and 268 individuals with silicosis were identified in New Jersey for the four-year period 1979-1982. Computer-generated maps help to dramatize the localization of ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Rosenman KD

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We evaluated the cost and yield of a general health surveillance program emphasizing the identification of occupationally related diseases among workers in a high-risk trade. Of approximately 4,000 eligible members of two local plumbers and pipefitters unions, 639 were screened in this program. Screening tests indicat...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Schwartz DA,Rosenstock L,Barnhart S,Inui TS

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This report presents the findings of a case-control study of lung cancer among workers at a rubber manufacturing plant. Detailed work histories of 40 lung cancer deaths, which occurred during 1977 and 1978, were compared with those of 146 controls who were individually matched to cases on age, sex, and race; 66 of the...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Andjelkovich DA,Abdelghany N,Mathew RM,Blum S

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In conjunction with industrial hygiene surveys, mutagenicity studies were performed for the airborne contaminants in three polyurethane manufacturing plants. Airborne particles were collected on glass-fiber filters with Hi-Vol pumps from different locations in each plant. Gases were collected in multiple-sorbent cartr...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Ong TM,Stewart J,Whong WZ,Boeniger M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal studies suggest that mesothelioma is most effectively induced by fibers longer than 8 mu. However, studies of asbestos fibers recovered from human lungs in cases of mesothelioma indicate that, at least in large-scale samples, relatively few fibers meet this size criterion, perhaps implying that the animal data ...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Churg A,Wiggs B

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies suggest that semiconductor workers have an increased incidence of work-related illness. Semiconductor manufacturing is a chemically intensive industry involving many potentially hazardous operations. As this industry moves into new geographic areas, health care professionals will be asked to evaluate me...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Wald PH,Jones JR

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Respiratory health variables were studied cross-sectionally in 227 employees of a plastics molding facility where numerous complaints had been apparently associated with the use of azodicarbonamide foaming agent in injection molding. Pre- and postshift respiratory status measures and azodicarbonamide concentrations we...

journal_title：American journal of industrial medicine

authors： Whitehead LW,Robins TG,Fine LJ,Hansen DJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00