Assessing Occupational Exposure to Crystalline Silica in a Population-Based Study of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus

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• Personal Author:
  Cooper GS ; Dement, John M. ; Hoppin JA ; Nylander-French LA ; Parks CG ; Sanderson, Wayne T.
• Description:
  Crystalline silica has been associated with SLE in highly exposed workers and silicosis patients. Population-based studies of this association are difficult to conduct, because most SLE patients are female and few women work in the traditional dusty trades. Assessment of silica exposure in epidemiologic studies has typically been limited to long-term work in the dusty trades industries, and although measurement studies have documented substantial silica exposure in agriculture, previous epidemiologic studies have not considered farm work as a source of silica exposure. Here we compare methods for assessing silica exposure from dusty trades and farm work in a population-based study of SLE in the southeastern United States. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Aluminum Silicates Dust Epidemiology Farmers Lung Lung Diseases Mining Occupational Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Silicon Dioxide

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• Keywords:
  Agricultural-workers Dust-analysis Dust-exposure Dust-particles Dust-sampling Lung-disease Lung-disorders Lung-irritants Mine-workers Mining-industry Pulmonary-system-disorders Respirable-dust Respiratory-system-disorders Silica-dusts Silicates Statistical-analysis

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• ISSN:
  0025-7818
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Proceedings ; Abstract
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DSHEFS - Division of Surveillance, Hazard Evaluations, and Field Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  93
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20027138
• Citation:
  Med Lav 2002 Oct; 93(Suppl):S26
• CAS Registry Number:
  Quartz (SiO2) (CAS RN 14808-60-7)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2003
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  La Medicina del Lavoro. 3rd International Symposium on Silica, Silicosis, Cancer and Other Diseases, S. Margherita Ligure, 21-25 October 2002
• Supplement:
  Suppl
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:083d7296072513aa7a15335db6f3ffc09d0337dc6b9d50698021ec7526ff2d424f9f3e81ff04193ccb158ad811aee68336c5881ffe76f22dd8a54f9d06755693
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/197473/cdc_197473_DS1.pdf
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