Gliomas and Farm Pesticide Exposure in Men: The Upper Midwest Health Study

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• Personal Author:
  Butler MA ; Calvert, Geoffrey M. ; Carreon T ; Connally LB ; Davis-King KE ; Heineman EF ; Mandel JS ; Morton RF ; Reding DJ ; Rosenman, Kenneth D. ; Ruder, Avima M. ; Sanderson, Wayne T. ; Schulte, Paul A. ; Talaska G ; Ward, Elizabeth M. ; Waters MA
• Description:
  The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health evaluated farm pesticide exposure and glioma risk in a study that included 457 glioma cases and 648 population-based controls, all adult men (18-80 yr old) and nonmetropolitan residents of Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Multiple logistic regressions were used to control for farm residence, age, age group, education, and exposure to other pesticides. No associations were found between glioma and 12 specific pesticides. We estimated adjusted odds ratios (ORs) and 95% confidence intervals (CIs) and found reduced glioma risk for insecticides (OR = 0.53, CI = 0.37-0.77), fumigants (OR = 0.57, CI = 0.34-0.95), and organochlorines (OR = 0.66, CI = 0.47-0.94). In analyses excluding proxy respondents (47% of cases) most CIs included 1.0. No positive association of farm pesticide exposure and glioma was found. Other farm exposures may explain the excess brain cancer risk seen in previous studies. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Aging Agriculture Demography Education Epidemiology Farmers Herbicides Insecticides Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Sex Characteristics

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors Age-groups Agricultural-chemicals Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Demographic-characteristics Etiology Occupational-exposure Pesticides Pesticides-and-agricultural-chemicals Risk-analysis Risk-factors Sex-factors Statistical-analysis

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• ISSN:
  0003-9896
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Iowa ; Michigan ; Minnesota ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 7 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies ; DART - Division of Applied Research and Technology
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  59
• Issue:
  12
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20030452
• Citation:
  Arch Environ Health 2004 Dec; 59(12):650-657
• Email:
  amr2@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2005
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Archives of Environmental Health
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:04f4961da3c2c6138429e309a312afaa4e755e3e7e296892080e19689d259c548f9fa16b1a5dce92510cc330bdea5bd81823c2bcbcb0112778e42e55627227ba
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