Nonmalignant respiratory disease mortality in styrene-exposed workers

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• Personal Author:
  Cummings, Kristin J. ; Kreiss, Kathleen ; McCague A-B
• Description:
  Collins and colleagues(1) focus on canecr risk in their study of more than 15,000 workers at 30 US reinforced-plastic facilities. Yet their demonstration of excess mortality from nonmalignant respiratory disease warrants further discussion. For this cohort of styrene workers, the standardized mortality ratio (SMR) for "bronchitis, emphysema, and asthma" was elevated at 1.35 (95% confidence interval [CI] - 1.17 1.56). The authors attribute this excess of deaths to smoking. Certainly, smoking is a recognized contributor to obstructive lung diseases. Furthermore, the observed inverse relationship with employment duration may appear to be inconsistent with an occupational cause of disease. However, previous studies have demonstrated excess mortality from nonmalignant respiratory disease in short-term styrene workers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Glass Lung Diseases Manufacturing And Industrial Facilities Mortality Neoplasms Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Plastics Respiratory Tract Diseases Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Ships Smokers Styrene Tobacco Products

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• Keywords:
  Boat-manufacturing-industry Cancer Cigarette-smoking Employee-exposure Fiberglass-industry Industrial-factory-workers Lung-disorders Mortality-data Mortality-rates Pulmonary-system-disorders Reinforced-plastics Respiratory-system-disorders Risk-factors Smoking Styrenes

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• ISSN:
  1044-3983
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  160-161
• Volume:
  25
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20043499
• Citation:
  Epidemiology 2014 Jan; 25(1):160-161
• Email:
  ifu2@cdc.gov
• CAS Registry Number:
  Styrene (CAS RN 100-42-5)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2014
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Epidemiology
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/195387/cdc_195387_DS1.pdf
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