Airway obstruction among Latino poultry processing workers in North Carolina

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• Personal Author:
  Arcury TA ; Blocker JN ; Chatterjee AB ; Chen H ; Grzywacz JG ; Marín AJ ; Mirabelli MC ; Mora DC ; Quandt SA ; Schulz MR
• Description:
  This analysis was conducted to evaluate the prevalence of airway obstruction among Latino poultry processing workers. Data were collected from 279 poultry processing workers and 222 other manual laborers via spirometry and interviewer-administered questionnaires. Participants employed in poultry processing reported the activities they perform at work. Participants with forced expiratory volume in 1 second (FEV1) or FEV1/forced expiratory volume (FVC) below the lower limits of normal were categorized as having airway obstruction. Airway obstruction was identified in 13% of poultry processing workers and 12% of the comparison population. Among poultry processing workers, the highest prevalence of airway obstruction (21%) occurred among workers deboning chickens (prevalence ratio: 1.75; 95% confidence interval: 0.97, 3.15). These findings identify variations in the prevalence of airway obstruction across categories of work activities. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Agriculture Asthma Asthma, Occupational Demography Epidemiology Food Industry Lung Occupational Health Race Factors Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Airway-obstruction Airway Obstruction Author Keywords: Agriculture Bronchial-asthma Demographic-characteristics Emigrants And Immigrants Minority Health Poultry-industry Poultry-workers Pulmonary-system Pulmonary-system-disorders Questionnaires Racial-factors Respiration Respiratory-system-disorders Rural Health Sociological-factors Work Work-environment Worker-health Workers

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• ISSN:
  1933-8244
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 4
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  63-66
• Volume:
  70
• Issue:
  1
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20045843
• Citation:
  Arch Environ Occup Health 2015 Jan; 70(1):63-66
• Contact Point Address:
  Maria C. Mirabelli, PhD, MPH, 4770 Buford Highway, NE, Building 106, Mailstop F60, Atlanta, GA 30341
• Email:
  zif7@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  Wake Forest University Health Sciences - Winston-Salem, North Carolina
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Start Date:
  20080930
• Source Full Name:
  Archives of Environmental & Occupational Health
• End Date:
  20140929
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:775c63c66f100c61084110cbaa945e835aa1919d9a387893ece23a49222646b1153954b3f62c49663a168fa3e3e1c371555e032e97f1602de7ca85beb14b8dea
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  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/201105/cdc_201105_DS1.pdf
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