Mortality among titanium dioxide workers at three DuPont plants
| Autor: | Janice P. Watkins, David J. Girardi, Elizabeth D. Ellis, William G. Tankersley, Joyce Phillips |
|---|---|
| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
| Předmět: |
Gerontology
Adult Male medicine.medical_specialty Population Occupational medicine chemistry.chemical_compound Occupational Exposure Medicine Humans Mortality education Aged Excess mortality Titanium education.field_of_study business.industry Mortality rate technology industry and agriculture Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Middle Aged United States chemistry Chemical Industry Population Surveillance Cohort Titanium dioxide Female business Target organ Cohort study Demography Follow-Up Studies |
| Zdroj: | Journal of occupational and environmental medicine. 52(3) |
| ISSN: | 1536-5948 |
| Popis: | Objective: To evaluate the mortality among workers employed at three titanium dioxide plants in the United States. Methods: We expanded and updated a cohort employed at titanium dioxide plants. Cause-specific standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) were calculated combined and stratified by plant for workers employed at least 6 months between 1935 and 2005. Results: No indications of excess mortality from any cause were found. All causes SMR increased with length of plant operation as did most cause-specific SMRs. With lung, the target organ of interest, no increases in malignant or nonmalignant respiratory disease were observed. Conclusions: The mortality rates are comparable with the general US population. Increasing SMRs with length of plant operation is indicative of waning healthy worker effect with time since first employment. The results are comparable with other titanium dioxide cohort studies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
| Externí odkaz: |
|