Death Rates Among Italian Railroad Employees: Terminal Progress Report

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• Journal Article:
  Centre for Cardiovascular Diseases, Rome, Italy, NIOSH Grant No. R01-OH-00362, 34 pages, 4 references
• Personal Author:
  Menotti, A.
• Description:
  A cohort of 172,459 males aged 20-65 employed in the Italian Railroad system, at work on April 1st 1963 have been classified by habitual physical activity at work and followed-up for death along a 10 year period. Crude total mortality has been 56.59 per 1000 in 10 years. No significant differences have been shown between sedentary, moderate and heavy workers. Age corrected death rates for coronary heart disease, as manifested by myocardial infarction and sudden coronary death, were substantially different in the three activity groups, with moderate workers ranking first, sedentary workers lying in between but very close to the former, and heavy workers having the lowest rate. The age corrected rates for all ages were 12.55, 14.18 and 7.63 per 1000 in 10 years respectively. All differences were statistically significant, the mortality ratio between sedentary moderate workers versus heavy workers being of the order of 1.75 to 1. Such protection seems to be maintained also after retirement. (Grant No. R01-OH-00362) [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Cardiovascular Diseases Cardiovascular System Mortality Occupational Health Railroads Safety Workload
• Keywords:
  NIOSH-Grant; Grants-other; Physical-exercise; Cardiovascular-system-disorders; Exercise; Mortality-data; Biostatistics; Myocardium; Workloads
• Source:
  NIOSH 1977 Jan; :1-34
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant No. R01-OH-00362
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  Italy
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  36 pdf pages
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00071493
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB89-121222
• Contact Point Address:
  Cardiology Via Savoia 80 Rome, Italy
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1977
• NORA Priority Area:
  Other Occupational Concerns ; Grants Other
• Performing Organization:
  San Camillo Hospital, Rome, Italy
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:d819bf5a68bfc4fa56d6771dfeda6a1bf417ad9b1065f7197bc0a8c1df6b39028e41d9ba7b31eb9b4b1704218d68d7620c5c2d6167ca30ecd79ac30877c8a03f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/114705/cdc_114705_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 990.27 KB ]