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Document ID (ISN)76318
CIS number 01-539
ISSN - Serial title 1351-0711 - Occupational and Environmental Medicine
Year 2000
Convention or series no.
Author(s) Cherniack M., Clive J., Seidner A.
Title Vibration exposure, smoking, and vascular dysfunction
Bibliographic information May 2000, Vol.57, No.5, p.341-347. 33 ref.
Abstract A total of 601 shipyard workers (current and former users of pneumatic tools) was evaluated subjectively for cold-related vascular symptoms, and tested by cold challenge plethysmography. Follow-up testing was done on 199 members of the severely affected subgroup of smokers and non-smokers, many of whom had stopped smoking in the interval between tests. Effects of smoking and stopping smoking were assessed. Symptoms and measured abnormal vascular responses were more severe in smokers. Smokers were almost twice as likely to have more severe vasospasm than were non-smokers. 53 subjects who stopped smoking during the interval between tests improved, and were indistinguishable from non-smokers similarly exposed to vibration. Additional physiological benefits of stopping smoking were still apparent at further follow up examination, one year later. Improvements seen on plethysmography were not accompanied by improvements in symptoms, which remained unaffected by smoking.
Descriptors (primary) vibration; vascular dysfunction; Raynaud's phenomenon; smoking
Descriptors (secondary) plethysmography; comparative study; pneumatic tools
Document type D - Periodical articles
Country / State or ProvinceUSA
Subject(s) Occupational pathology
Broad subject area(s) Physical hazards
Browse category(ies) Cardiovascular diseases
Vibration
Smoking