Lung Diseases Among Carpenters

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• Personal Author:
  Dement, John M. ; Lipscomb HJ
• Description:
  Existing data sources, including health insurance claims and worker's compensation claims, were integrated to develop a more comprehensive data system for the study of respiratory disorders of possible occupational origin among members of the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners. The study cohort included 10,938 active union carpenters who had worked at least 3 months of union hours between 1989 and 1992 in Washington. Bronchitis accounted for over 50% of the lung disease cases among this cohort, occurring at a rate of 1.8 per 1,000 months of insurance eligibility, followed by asthma, chronic obstructive airway disease, and chronic bronchitis. Carpenters associated with a local whose predominant task was residential carpentry had the highest crude rates of asthma. Rates of asthma increased with increasing age and women had higher rates of asthma than men. Bronchitis increased with increasing age most dramatically in the model treating bronchitis as an acute disorder. The risk of asthma appeared greater in the first year of union membership and for women. The authors conclude that information gathered from health insurance claims and workers' compensation claims, can be used for epidemiologic research. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Asthma Asthma, Occupational Epidemiology Occupational Health Respiratory Tract Diseases Risk Assessment Risk Factors Safety Sex Characteristics Wood

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors Bronchial-asthma NIOSH-Grant Pulmonary-system-disorders Risk-factors Sex-factors Woodworkers
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  North Carolina ; OSHA Region 10 ; OSHA Region 4 ; Washington
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-98
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00235933
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB97-162390
• Citation:
  Department of Community and Family Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University of Medicine, Epidemiology, Durham, North Carolina 1996 May; :1-98
• Contact Point Address:
  Community and Family Medicine Duke University Medical Ctr 2200 W Main St /Box 2914 Durham, NC 27710
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1996
• NORA Priority Area:
  Pulmonary System Disorders
• Performing Organization:
  Duke University, Durham, North Carolina
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  19930930
• Source Full Name:
  Department of Community and Family Medicine, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Community and Family Medicine, Duke University of Medicine, Epidemiology, Durham, North Carolina
• End Date:
  19951231
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:fcfb40eb49e1373a88d7686c4c364d2f3c625fe3b04ce3eab62b2b890300969c990446874748f22571b345d2f2d62c88426a7d715639396d3d5bca6e96b149d4
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/217899/cdc_217899_DS1.pdf
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  [PDF - 3.55 MB ]