| Document ID (ISN) | 110992 |
| CIS number |
10-0514 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
1076-2752 - Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
| Year |
2010 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Ellis E.D., Watkins J., Tankersley W., Phillips J., Girardi D. |
| Title |
Mortality among titanium dioxide workers at three DuPont plants |
| Bibliographic information |
Mar. 2010, Vol.52, No.3, p.303-309. 20 ref. |
| Abstract |
The aim of this study was to evaluate the mortality among workers employed at three titanium dioxide plants in the United States. A cohort of 5054 workers employed at titanium dioxide plants was followed. Cause-specific standardized mortality ratios (SMRs) were calculated, combined and stratified by plant for workers employed at least six months between 1935 and 2005. No indications of excess mortality from any cause were found. All causes SMR increased with length of plant operation as did most cause-specific SMRs. With lung, the target organ of interest, no increases in malignant or nonmalignant respiratory disease were observed. The mortality rates are comparable with the general US population. Increasing SMRs with length of plant operation is indicative of waning healthy worker effect with time since first employment. The results are comparable with other titanium dioxide cohort studies. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
USA; titanium dioxide; mortality; chemical industry |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
healthy worker effect; cohort study; statistical evaluation |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Subject(s) |
Chemicals, plastics and rubber
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Chemical industry
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