EXPOSURE TO STYRENE AND MORTALITY FROM NONMALIGNANT RESPIRATORY-DISEASES

Authors
WELP E PARTANEN T KOGEVINAS M ANDERSEN A BELLANDER T BIOCCA M COGGON D GENNARO V KOLSTAD H LUNDBERG I LYNGE E SPENCE A FERRO G SARACCI R BOFFETTA P
Citation
E. Welp et al., EXPOSURE TO STYRENE AND MORTALITY FROM NONMALIGNANT RESPIRATORY-DISEASES, Occupational and environmental medicine, 53(7), 1996, pp. 499-501
Citations number
10
Categorie Soggetti
Public, Environmental & Occupation Heath
Journal title
Occupational and environmental medicine → ACNP
ISSN journal
13510711
Volume
53
Issue
7
Year of publication
1996
Pages
499 - 501
Database
ISI
SICI code
1351-0711(1996)53:7<499:ETSAMF>2.0.ZU;2-N
Abstract
A cohort of 34 560 men and 6128 women employed in 660 European factori es manufacturing reinforced plastic products, followed up originally t o assess the risk of cancer, was used to assess the risk of non-malign ant respiratory diseases associated with exposure to styrene. Mortalit y from pneumonia was associated with intensity of exposure to styrene, but this may have been due to chance. Mortality from bronchitis, emph ysema, and asthma was not associated with styrene exposure.