| Document ID (ISN) | 100809 |
| CIS number |
02-1667 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
1351-0711 - Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
| Year |
2002 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Liu Y.H., Du C.L., Lin C.T., Chan C.C., Chen C.J., Wang J.D. |
| Title |
Increased morbidity from nasopharyngeal carcinoma and chronic pharyngitis or sinusitis among workers at a newspaper printing company |
| Bibliographic information |
Jan. 2002, Vol.59, No.1, p.18-22. 30 ref. |
| Abstract |
To determine the association between printing work and nasopharyngeal carcinoma as well as other diseases, demographic and hospital admission data were obtained for all workers at a newspaper who had worked since its establishment in 1950. Of the 1564 workers identified, 579 were admitted to hospital at least once. Of these, five out of 144 printing workers were diagnosed with nasopharyngeal carcinoma compared with none of the 435 non-printing workers. The morbidity odds ratios (OR) among printing workers was 57.0 for nasopharyngeal carcinoma, 28.0 for benign skin tumours and 29.4 for chronic pharyngitis or sinusitis. In conclusion, printing work is associated with an increased risk of nasopharyngeal carcinoma, benign skin tumours, chronic pharyngitis or sinusitis, chronic liver diseases and mechanical injuries. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
printing industry; sinusitis; risk factors; morbidity; pharyngitis; nasal cancer |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
benign tumours; Taiwan (China); injuries; diagnosis; hepatic diseases |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | Taiwan (China) |
| Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
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| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
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| Browse category(ies) |
Diseases of the respiratory system (except for pneumoconiosis & similar)
Printing, photography and photocopying industry
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