Epidemiologic studies in agricultural populations: observations and future directions

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• Personal Author:
  Blair, Austin ; Freeman LB
• Description:
  This paper reviews epidemiologic studies of cancer among agricultural populations to identify possible associations and to provide a focus for future investigations. Meta-analyses of mortality surveys of farmers find excesses of several cancers, including connective tissue, non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, multiple myeloma and cancers of the skin, stomach, and brain, and deficits for total mortality, heart disease, total cancer, and cancers of the esophagus, colon, lung, and bladder. Meta-analyses of studies of individual cancers also support these findings, indicating a need to identify exposures and lifestyle factors that might account for this mortality pattern. Although cancer studies of other occupations that might have pesticide exposures in common with farmers show some similarities with observations among farmers, the overall patterns are quite different. This suggests that pesticides are not likely to fully explain the cancer and other disease patterns observed among farmers. Because exposures vary by type of farm operation, exposures for individual farmers can differ considerably. Studies in the future need to focus on the full range of exposures to fully understand the cancer pattern in farmers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Carcinogens Environmental Exposure Environmental Monitoring Environmental Pollution Epidemiology Farmers Hazardous Substances Hypersensitivity Mortality Occupational Health Risk Assessment Safety Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Author Keywords: Agriculture Biohazards Biological-effects Biological-systems Cancer Chemical-hypersensitivity Environmental-exposure Environmental-hazards Exposure-assessment Health-hazards Mortality-rates Mortality-surveys Physical-reactions Physiological-disorders Physiological-effects Physiological-factors Physiological-response Risk-analysis Statistical-analysis Work-analysis Work-environment Work-operations Work-practices Worker-health Workplace-monitoring Workplace-studies

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• ISSN:
  1059-924X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3 ; OSHA Region 5 ; Wisconsin
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  125-131
• Volume:
  14
• Issue:
  2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20038728
• Citation:
  J Agromedicine 2009 Apr; 14(2):125-131
• Contact Point Address:
  Aaron Blair, PhD, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics, National Cancer Institute, Executive Plaza South, Room 8008, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA
• Email:
  blaira@mail.nih.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• Performing Organization:
  Marshfield Clinic
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20080901
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agromedicine
• End Date:
  20090831
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:2005e75d3d48d86d12f39bcf116d87ef6095cc362ace14caf58d1a3bd627e8700dbf3cb159242cf5e7ea8f192f82f65cfa0c52ed3d582d63346ec452e0c56d76
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/192336/cdc_192336_DS1.pdf
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