Respiratory health of two cohorts of terminal grain elevator workers studied 30 years apart
| Autor: | Kris Beking, Helen Dimich-Ward, Barbara Karlen, Moira Chan-Yeung, Karen H. Bartlett, Anne DyBuncio, Yat Chow |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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Lung Diseases Male Gerontology Spirometry medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Respiratory Tract Diseases Grain elevator Lower risk Logistic regression Risk Assessment Severity of Illness Index law.invention Cohort Studies Occupational medicine Sex Factors law Occupational Exposure Epidemiology Confidence Intervals Odds Ratio medicine Humans Occupational Health British Columbia medicine.diagnostic_test business.industry Age Factors Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Odds ratio Middle Aged Elevators and Escalators Agricultural Workers' Diseases Respiratory Function Tests Cross-Sectional Studies Logistic Models Linear Models Female Edible Grain business Cohort study Demography |
| Zdroj: | American Journal of Industrial Medicine. 54:263-268 |
| ISSN: | 0271-3586 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/ajim.20891 |
| Popis: | Introduction We evaluated the respiratory health of two cohorts of grain terminal elevator workers who participated in one of either respiratory health surveys undertaken in 1978 and 2008. Methods Questionnaire and spirometry data from 584 workers from the 1978 survey and 215 workers from the 2008 survey were compared using logistic regression and general linear modeling. Results The geometric means of area samples of grain dust averaged 8.28 mg/m3 in 1978 and 2.06 mg/m3 in 2008. Workers in the 1978 survey had a significantly higher prevalence of respiratory symptoms (with the largest adjusted odds ratio of 3.78, 95% CI 2.07–7.25, for shortness of breath), a lower prevalence of atopic conditions and lower mean lung function. Conclusion Current grain workers had a lower risk of respiratory health consequences and a greater prevalence of atopic conditions than workers surveyed 30 years prior, most likely associated with reduced exposure to grain dust in the terminal elevator environment. Am. J. Ind. Med. 54:263–268, 2011. © 2010 Wiley-Liss, Inc. |
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