Open AccessCognitive Symptoms and Welding Fume Exposure
Author(s) -
John Ross,
J. Macdiarmid,
Sean Semple,
Stephen Watt,
Gill Moir,
George Henderson
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
the annals of occupational hygiene
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1475-3162
pISSN - 0003-4878
DOI - 10.1093/annhyg/mes042
Subject(s) - welding , occupational exposure , medicine , forensic engineering , environmental health , engineering , materials science , composite material
Prevalence of moderate to severe cognitive symptoms is markedly higher in UK professional divers who have also worked as a welder (28%) than in either divers who have not welded (18%) or offshore workers who have worked neither as a diver nor as a welder (6%).
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