Case-control study of lung cancer and truck driving in the Teamsters Union
| Autor: | D T Silverman, R W Hornung, N K Steenland |
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| Rok vydání: | 1990 |
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Truck
Male Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Automobile Driving Lung Neoplasms complex mixtures Death Certificates Occupational medicine Risk Factors Medicine Humans Risk factor Vehicle Emissions business.industry Labor Unions Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Absolute risk reduction Case-control study Odds ratio United States respiratory tract diseases Occupational Diseases Case-Control Studies Population study business Risk assessment Epidemiologic Methods human activities Demography Research Article |
| Zdroj: | American journal of public health. 80(6) |
| ISSN: | 0090-0036 |
| Popis: | We conducted a case-control study of lung cancer deaths in the Teamsters Union to compare the risk of different occupations within the teamsters, after controlling for smoking and other confounders. Occupations with no presumed exposure to diesel fumes were used as the nonexposed group. The study population consisted of 996 cases and 1,085 controls who had died in 1982-83 after applying for pensions. Next of kin provided information on smoking, work history, and other potential confounders. Work history data were also obtained from the Teamsters Union. While no single job category had a significant excess risk compared to the non-exposed group, certain sub-groups were elevated. The odds ratio for those with long-term employment as long-haul truckers after 1959 (an approximate date for the introduction of diesel engines) was 1.55 (95% CI: 0.97, 2.47). Long-term drivers of primarily diesel trucks had an odds ratio of 1.89 (95% CI: 1.04, 3.42). Overall, our results suggest that diesel truck drivers have an excess risk of lung cancer compared to other teamsters in jobs outside the trucking industry. However, our findings were not uniformly consistent and our data have many limitations, the most important of which is the lack of data on exposure to diesel fumes. |
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