Mortality in retired coke oven plant workers
| Autor: | J M Mur, A Figueredo, J. J. Moulin, A Patris, Nearkasen Chau, J P Bertrand, Q T Pham |
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| Rok vydání: | 1993 |
| Předmět: |
Male
medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Coke oven Cohort Studies Risk Factors Cause of Death Neoplasms Occupational Exposure Epidemiology medicine Humans Lung cancer Coke Cause of death Working life business.industry technology industry and agriculture Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Middle Aged medicine.disease respiratory tract diseases Surgery Occupational Diseases Standardized mortality ratio Cardiovascular Diseases Cohort France business Research Article Demography Cohort study |
| Zdroj: | Occupational and Environmental Medicine. 50:127-135 |
| ISSN: | 1351-0711 |
| Popis: | A previous study on 536 retired coke oven plant workers in Lorraine Collieries (France) reported an excess of deaths from lung cancer (standardised mortality ratio (SMR) = 251) compared with the French male population. Occupational exposures during working life were retraced for each subject, but the number of deaths during the observation period (1963-82) was small, and smoking habits were known only for dead subjects. In 1988, the cohort was re-examined (182 deaths occurred between 1963 and 1987) and smoking habits were determined for all the subjects. This study confirmed the excess of lung cancer (SMR = 238, p < 0.001). It showed an excess of mortality from all causes (SMR = 141, p < 0.001), overall cancers (SMR = 133, p < 0.05), and cardiovascular diseases (SMR = 133, p < 0.05). A significant excess of deaths was found for subjects who worked near the ovens for all causes (145, p < 0.01), lung cancer (SMR = 252, p < 0.01), colon cancer (SMR = 381, p < 0.05), and cardiovascular diseases (SMR = 155, p < 0.05). A significant excess mortality was also found from all causes (176, p < 0.05) and stomach cancer (SMR = 538, p < 0.01) in subjects who worked in byproducts, from lung cancer (SMR = 433, p < 0.001) in those in the workshops, and from cirrhosis of the liver and alcoholism (SMR = 360, p < 0.01) in those underground; but, due to small numbers, these figures were not robust. An excess of mortality from all causes (SMR = 163, p |
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