The epidemiology of carbon monoxide in cardiovascular disease in industrial environments: a review
| Autor: | Carl Zenz |
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| Rok vydání: | 1979 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Epidemiology Threshold limit value Carbon monoxide poisoning business.industry Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Human factors and ergonomics Poison control Disease medicine.disease Occupational safety and health Occupational Diseases Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Cardiovascular Diseases Environmental health medicine Work Intensity Humans Female business |
| Zdroj: | Preventive medicine. 8(3) |
| ISSN: | 0091-7435 |
| Popis: | Carbon monoxide (CO), which is encountered in many industries, processes, and various places of work, is one of the most common industrial poisons. This article reviews known factors concerning the role of CO in cardiovascular diseases along with important occupational aspects, such as work intensity (energy requirement of a job and/or degree of metabolic activity of a worker) and influence of CO production resulting from occupational exposure to methylene chloride, a widely used solvent which, in man, is metabolized partly to CO. Reasons for threshold limit values (“TLVs”) are given and how they are derived from the few epidemiologic studies available. Drawing from British, Finnish, and selected U.S. investigations, the difficulties in conducting epidemiologic surveys from different working groups are set forth as are the major correlating findings of the potential influence of CO on the cardiovascular status of chronically exposed workers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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