Mortality among benzene-exposed workers in China.

A large cohort of 74,828 benzene-exposed and 35,805 nonexposed workers employed between 1972 and 1987 in 12 cities in China was followed to determine mortality from all causes. Benzene-exposed study subjects were employed in a variety of occupations including coating applications, and rubber, chemic...

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Autores principales: Hayes, R B, Yin, S N, Dosemeci, M, Li, G L, Wacholder, S, Chow, W H, Rothman, N, Wang, Y Z, Dai, T R, Chao, X J, Jiang, Z L, Ye, P Z, Zhao, H B, Kou, Q R, Zhang, W Y, Meng, J F, Zho, J S, Lin, X F, Ding, C Y, Li, C Y, Zhang, Z N, Li, D G, Travis, L B, Blot, W J, Linet, M S
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 1996
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1469764/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9118919
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Sumario:A large cohort of 74,828 benzene-exposed and 35,805 nonexposed workers employed between 1972 and 1987 in 12 cities in China was followed to determine mortality from all causes. Benzene-exposed study subjects were employed in a variety of occupations including coating applications, and rubber, chemical, and shoe production. Mortality was slightly increased among workers with greater cumulative exposure to benzene (ptrend < 0.05), but this excess was largely due to cancer deaths (ptrend < 0.01). Deaths due to lymphatic and hematopoietic malignancies (ptrend = 0.01) and lung cancer (ptrend = 0.01) increased with increasing cumulative exposure to benzene. Investigations continue to relate benzene exposure to specific lymphatic and hematopoietic malignancies and other causes of death.

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