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Document ID (ISN)107577
CIS number 08-69
ISSN - Serial title 1351-0711 - Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Year 2006
Convention or series no.
Author(s) van Balen E., Font R., Cavallé N., Font L., Garcia-Villanueva M., Benavente Y., Brennan P., de Sanjose S.
Title Exposure to non-arsenic pesticides is associated with lymphoma among farmers in Spain
Bibliographic information Oct. 2006, Vol.63, No.10, p.663-668. 36 ref.
Abstract The objective of this case-control study was to estimate the risk of lymphoma among farmers in Spain. Cases were subjects diagnosed with lymphoma in one of four participating hospitals between 1998 and 2002. Controls were selected among other patients and matched to the cases by sex and age. All subjects were interviewed on their job history. Although globally farmers were not at an increased risk of lymphoma as compared with all other occupations, those exposed to non-arsenic pesticides were found to be at increased risk of lymphoma (odds ratio, OR 1.8). A particularly high risk was observed among farmers working exclusively either as crop farmers or as animal farmers (OR 2.8). The risk was also high for exposure to non-arsenic pesticides for over nine years (OR 2.4).
Descriptors (primary) Spain; lymphoma; agriculture; risk factors; pesticides
Descriptors (secondary) livestock rearing; latency; diagnosis; statistical evaluation; hospitals; crop farming; case-control study
Document type D - Periodical articles
Country / State or ProvinceSpain; France
Subject(s) Agriculture, fishing, animal husbandry
Occupational pathology
Broad subject area(s) Chemical safety
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
Browse category(ies) Blood diseases
Agriculture
Agricultural chemicals