Acute myeloid leukemia risk by industry and occupation

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• Personal Author:
  Calvert, Geoffrey M. ; Cress RD ; Deapen DM ; Luckhaupt SE ; Schumacher P ; Tsai RJ
• Description:
  Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the most common type of leukemia found in adults. Identifying jobs that pose a risk for AML may be useful for identifying new risk factors. A matched case-control analysis was conducted using California Cancer Registry data from 1988 to 2007. This study included 8999 cases of AML and 24 822 controls. Industries with a statistically significant increased AML risk were construction (matched odds ratio [mOR] = 1.13); crop production (mOR = 1.41); support activities for agriculture and forestry (mOR = 2.05); and animal slaughtering and processing (mOR = 2.09). Among occupations with a statistically significant increased AML risk were miscellaneous agricultural workers (mOR = 1.76); fishers and related fishing workers (mOR = 2.02); nursing, psychiatric and home health aides (mOR = 1.65); and janitors and building cleaners (mOR = 1.54). Further investigation is needed to confirm study findings and to identify specific exposures responsible for the increased risks. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Animals Blood Construction Industry Epidemiology Forestry Health Personnel Hunting Insecticides Livestock Maintenance Men Morbidity Neoplasms Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety

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• Keywords:
  Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Author Keywords: Acute Myeloid Leukemia Cancer Cancer-rates Construction Construction-industry Crop-spraying Employee-exposure Employee-health Fishing-industry Health-care-personnel Industry Leukemogenesis Lymphatic-cancer Maintenance-workers Morbidity-rates Myeloid-tissue Nursing Occupation Pesticides Pesticides-and-agricultural-chemicals Psychiatrists Risk-factors Risk Factors Slaughterhouses Statistical-analysis Surveillance-programs

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• ISSN:
  1042-8194
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 9
• 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:
  55
• Issue:
  11
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20045434
• Citation:
  Leuk Lymphoma 2014 Nov; 55(11):2584-2591
• Contact Point Address:
  Rebecca J.Tsai, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 4676 Columbia Parkway, R-17, Cincinnati, OH 45226, USA
• Email:
  rtsai@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• NORA Priority Area:
  Agriculture, Forestry and Fishing
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Leukemia & Lymphoma
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:910a547c115c91c76c010e7d7a23619c54f4bf4e385ff153843eb7fd52055dbcb774d0a42fd76f602c7a5a4638ad5cd28fa3c0ba78b74b76e0516166531e42ee
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/200855/cdc_200855_DS1.pdf
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