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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).

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