Brain Cancer Mortality among French Farmers: The Vineyard Pesticide Hypothesis
| Autor: | Bruno Challier, Alexandre Pitard, Jean-François Viel, Dominique Pobel |
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| Rok vydání: | 1998 |
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Male Risk medicine.medical_specialty Multivariate analysis Population Wine Biology Vineyard symbols.namesake Risk Factors Occupational Exposure Epidemiology Confidence Intervals medicine Humans Environmental Chemistry Poisson regression Pesticides education Aged General Environmental Science education.field_of_study Brain Neoplasms Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Middle Aged Confidence interval Agricultural Workers' Diseases Standardized mortality ratio Relative risk symbols France Demography |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Environmental Health: An International Journal. 53:65-70 |
| ISSN: | 0003-9896 |
| Popis: | In this study, the authors assessed the contribution of vineyard pesticides to brain cancer mortality among agricultural workers. A pesticide exposure index (PEI) in vineyards was calculated for 89 French geographical units (departements). The authors estimated standardized mortality ratios among male farmers and farm laborers aged 35-74 y for the years 1984-1986. Poisson regression models, which were fitted to the ecological data, included random effects. Mortality from brain cancer among farmers was significantly higher than mortality for the overall population (standardized mortality ratio = 1.25, p < .001). Univariate analysis revealed a significant link with pesticide exposure in vineyards (relative risk = 1.10; 95% confidence interval = 1.03, 1.18), as did multivariate analysis (relative risk = 1.11; 95% confidence interval = 1.03, 1.19). These results corraborate the evidence that pesticides in vineyards contribute to mortality from brain cancer among farmers. |
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