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Cancer mortality among shoe and leather workers in Massachusetts
Author(s) -
Garabrant David H.,
Wegman David H.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
american journal of industrial medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1097-0274
pISSN - 0271-3586
DOI - 10.1002/ajim.4700050407
Subject(s) - medicine , confidence interval , odds ratio , lung cancer , occupational exposure , cancer , bladder cancer , environmental health , occupational medicine , demography , gerontology , sociology
A proportional mortality analysis of death certificates of 2,798 shoe and leather workers demonstrated a statistically significant excess of bladder cancer among female shoe workers (PMR + 2.51, 95% confidence interval 1.23 to 5.12). A case‐referent analysis of 289 leather workers, on whom detailed occupational information was available, demonstrated an association of lung cancer with work in leather‐tanning jobs (odds ratio + 4.2, 95% confidence interval 1.09 to 16.2).