| Document ID (ISN) | 69009 |
| CIS number |
97-821 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
1351-0711 - Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
| Year |
1994 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Jones R.D. |
| Title |
Survey of antimony workers: Mortality 1961-1992 |
| Bibliographic information |
Nov. 1994, Vol.51, No.11, p.772-776. 7 ref. |
| Abstract |
The mortality of a census population and a prospective cohort of men employed at an antimony smelter in the north-east of England was followed up from 1961-1992. An increased risk of lung cancer existed in the workers employed before 1961, but it was not possible to attribute this excess to any particular agent. Mortality analyzed by five-year calendar periods of first exposure show a lessening of effect after 1955. Although the power of the study is clearly less for more recent periods of exposure, the absence of any excess in the population after 1960 is encouraging. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
antimony; foundries; lung cancer; mortality |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
frequency rates; long-term study |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | United Kingdom |
| Subject(s) |
Metal production and metalworking
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Inorganic substances
Diseases of the respiratory system (except for pneumoconiosis & similar)
Foundries, metalcasting and forging operations
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