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Alternative Title:
J Occup Environ Med
Personal Author:
Ji, John S. ; Schwartz, Joel ; Sparrow, David ; Hu, Howard ; Weisskopf, Marc G.
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Description:
Objectives

To examine the relation between occupation and cumulative lead exposure—assessed by measuring bone lead—in a community-dwelling population

Method

We measured bone lead concentration with K-shell X-Ray Fluorescence in 1,320 men in the Normative Aging Study. We categorized job titles into 14 broad US Census Bureau categories. We used ordinary least squares regression to estimate bone lead by job categories adjusted for other predictors.

Results

Service Workers, Construction and Extractive Craft Workers, and Installation, Maintenance and Repair Craft Workers had the highest bone lead concentrations. Including occupations significantly improved the overall model (p<0.001) and reduced by −15% to −81% the association between bone lead and education categories.

Conclusion

Occupation significantly predicts cumulative lead exposure in a community-dwelling population, and accounts for a large proportion of the association between education and bone lead.


Subjects:
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Aged Bone And Bones Humans Lead Longitudinal Studies Male Occupational Exposure Occupations Questionnaires Veterans
Source:
J Occup Environ Med. 56(4):435-440.
Pubmed ID:
24709766
Pubmed Central ID:
PMC3982188
Document Type:
Journal Article
Funding:
P30 ES000002/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States ; R01 ES005257/ES/NIEHS NIH HHS/United States ; T42/OH008416/OH/NIOSH CDC HHS/United States
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Place as Subject:
United States
Collection(s):
CDC Public Access
Main Document Checksum:
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urn:sha256:d6d3249a07ea803d8d3586fbb3c10e02334f7f7124491010d9adb3b33a4fb66f
Download URL:
https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/29923/cdc_29923_DS1.pdf
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Supporting Files

• 	NIHMS558244-supplement-Supplemental_Digital_Content.docx	docx
  	nihms558244.nxml	txt

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