National Health Interview Survey Mortality Among US Farmers and Pesticide Applicators

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• Personal Author:
  Fleming, Lora E. ; Gomez-Marin O ; Lee D ; Ma F ; Zheng D
• Description:
  The mortality experience of pesticide-exposed workers across the US has not been thoroughly studied. Cox regression mortality analyses adjusted for the complex sample survey design were performed on mortality-linked 1986-1994 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) data. Nine thousand four hundred seventy-one farmers and pesticide applicators with 571 deaths were compared to 438,228 other US workers with 11,992 deaths. Age-adjusted risk of accidental death, as well as cancers of the nervous and lymphatic/hematopoietic systems, was significantly elevated in male and female pesticide-exposed workers; breast, prostate, and testicular cancer mortality risks were not elevated. Compared to all other workers, farmers and pesticide applicators were at greater risk of accidental mortality. These pesticide-exposed workers were not at an increased risk of cancers possibly associated with exposure to estrogen analogue compounds, but were at an increased risk of hematopoietic and nervous system cancers. NHIS mortality follow-up represents an important occupational health surveillance instrument. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Agriculture Demography Farmers Hazardous Substances Hematopoietic System Insecticides Lymphatic System Mortality Neoplasms Nervous System Diseases Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Sex Characteristics

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors Agricultural-chemicals Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Cancer Demographic-characteristics Health-hazards Hematopoietic-system Lymphatic-cancer Lymphatic-system-disorders Mortality-data Mortality-rates Nervous-system-disorders Occupational-diseases Occupational-exposure Occupational-hazards Occupational-health Pesticide-industry Pesticides Pesticides-and-agricultural-chemicals Risk-analysis Risk-factors Sex-factors

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• ISSN:
  0271-3586
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Florida ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  227-233
• Volume:
  43
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20029173
• Citation:
  Am J Ind Med 2003 Feb; 43(2):227-233
• Contact Point Address:
  Lora E. Fleming, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Miami School of Medicine, 1801 NW 9th Avenue, Suite 200, Highland Professional Building, Miami, FL 33136
• Email:
  lfleming@med.miami.edu
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• Performing Organization:
  University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20020901
• Source Full Name:
  American Journal of Industrial Medicine
• End Date:
  20120831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:32606f831be5a91aa7dd7862b44911a3a961e17b5b64306be718d1bf5446dc6ca1e17156c832d6c36d85bf227cd8c735a0cba981702ec541cb8199c61210f078
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/190217/cdc_190217_DS1.pdf
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