Mortality among workers receiving compensation awards for silicosis in Ontario 1940-85
| Autor: | Florian Krammer, R A Kusiak, Murray M. Finkelstein, Gary M. Liss |
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| Rok vydání: | 1987 |
| Předmět: |
Ontario
medicine.medical_specialty Lung Neoplasms business.industry Silicosis Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Occupational disease Workers' compensation medicine.disease Country of origin respiratory tract diseases Surgery Standardized mortality ratio Stomach Neoplasms Cause of Death medicine Humans Workers' Compensation Lung cancer business Research Article Demography Cause of death |
| Zdroj: | Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 44:588-594 |
| ISSN: | 1351-0711 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/oem.44.9.588 |
| Popis: | The mortality experience of 1190 miners and 289 surface industry workers receiving workers' compensation awards for silicosis in Ontario since 1940 has been studied up to mid-1985. Both groups were found to have a significantly increased mortality from lung cancer (miners' SMR: 230; surface workers' SMR: 302) and stomach cancer (miners' SMR: 188; surface workers' SMR: 366). Adjustment for smoking and country of origin did not explain the excesses observed. The lung cancer findings are consistent with observations from silicosis registries in Europe. Possible explanatory factors are discussed. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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