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Occupation and risk of hodgkin's disease in north‐east Italy
Author(s) -
Franceschi Silvia,
Serraing Diego,
Bidoli Ettore,
La Vecchia Carlo,
Tirelli Umberto
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
international journal of cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.475
H-Index - 234
eISSN - 1097-0215
pISSN - 0020-7136
DOI - 10.1002/ijc.2910480608
Subject(s) - livestock , odds ratio , agriculture , confidence interval , pesticide , environmental health , disease , epidemiology , disease control , medicine , geography , demography , veterinary medicine , biology , agronomy , forestry , archaeology , sociology
The relationship between occupation and exposure to several occupational agents and Hodgkin's disease (HD) was investigated in a case‐control study of 152 cases and 613 controls with acute diseases admitted to all hospitals in Pordenone province, north‐east Italy. Among cases, there was a significant excess of individuals occupied in agriculture (odds ratio, OR for > 10 years = 2.2, 95% confidence interval, CI:1.3‐3.7), Who were exposed to livestock and meat processing (OR‐3.4, 95% CI:1.7‐6.6), herbicides and pesticides (OR = 3.2, 95% CI:1.6‐6.5). When the relationship between agriculture and specific exposures was assessed, it appeared that contact with some still unidentified animal‐related agent involved in livestock farming and meat processing may be at least as important in determining HD risk as exposure to herbicides and pesticides and, probably, more important than occupation in agriculture per se .