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Total and cause-specific mortality in cohorts of asbestos-cement workers and referents between 1907 and 1985
M. Albin
; Departments of Occupational Medicine and Pathology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
R. Attewell
; Departments of Occupational Medicine and Pathology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
K. Jakobsson
; Departments of Occupational Medicine and Pathology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
L. Johansson
; Departments of Occupational Medicine and Pathology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
H. Welinder
; Departments of Occupational Medicine and Pathology, University Hospital, Lund, Sweden
Abstract
Total and cause-specific mortality data for the 1907 -1985 period were compared between cohorts of male asbestos-cement workers (N = 1908) and referents (N = 726), using Poisson regression modelling. The rate ratio (RR) for total mortality was significantly increased (1.3) among the exposed workers, as was mortality from non-malignant respiratory disease (RR= 2.2). Numerically, but not statistically significantly, raised ratios were found for respiratory (RR= 1.6) and gastrointestinal (RR= 1.3) cancers. The trend in the rate ratio for total mortality with time was better fitted with a curved line, than with a monotonic one, because of a period of increased risk up to the 1950s, and another one starting after 1970.
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152622
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Publication date:
15.6.1989.
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