| ID (ISN) del documento | 108670 |
| Número CIS |
08-1212 |
| ISSN - Título de la serie |
1351-0711 - Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
| Año |
2007 |
| Número de serie |
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| Autor(es) |
Johnson E.S., Zhou Y., Sall M., El Faramawi M., Shah N., Christopher A., Lewis N. |
| Título |
Non-malignant disease mortality in meat workers: A model for studying the role of zoonotic transmissible agents in non-malignant chronic diseases in humans |
| Información bibliográfica |
Dec. 2007, Vol.64, No.12, p.849-855. 53 ref. |
| Resumen |
A study of mortality from non-malignant causes was conducted between 1949 and 1989 in a cohort of 8520 meat workers in a union in Baltimore, Maryland, who worked in manufacturing plants where animals were killed or processed, and who had high exposures to infectious agents. Mortality in this cohort was compared with that in a control group of 6081 unexposed workers in the same union, and also with the United States general population. Proportional, standardized and relative mortality ratios were calculated. Significant excesses of mortality from septicaemia, subarachnoid haemorrhage, chronic nephritis, endocarditis and functional diseases of the heart were observed in meat workers when compared to the control group or to the United States general population. It is hypothesized that zoonotic transmissible agents may be responsible for the occurrence of some of the circulatory, neurological and other diseases observed among these workers. |
| Descriptores (primarios) |
Maryland; industria de la carne; riesgos biológicos; mortalidad |
| Descriptores (secundarios) |
Estados Unidos; trastornos funcionales cardiacos; enfermedades crónicas; enfermedades infecciosas; bacteriemia, septicemia; valoración estadística; hemorragia; estudio de cohorte; efectos neurológicos; papel de las organizaciones de trabajadores; nefritis |
| Tipo de documento |
D - Artículos periódicos |
| País / Estado o Provincia | Estados Unidos |
| Tema(s) |
Alimentación, bebidas, tabaco
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Riesgos biológicos
Medicina del trabajo, epidemiología
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| Navegación por categoria(s) |
Industria alimentaria
Biological hazards
Bacterial and parasitic diseases
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