Open AccessExposure to benzene and risk of leukemia among shoe factory workers
Author(s) -
Adele Seniori Costantini,
Margaret Quinn,
Dario Consonni,
Marco Zappa
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of work, environment and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.621
H-Index - 103
eISSN - 1795-990X
pISSN - 0355-3140
DOI - 10.5271/sjweh.704
Subject(s) - confidence interval , medicine , leukemia , cohort , cohort study , relative risk , absolute risk reduction , benzene , exposure assessment , demography , toxicology , environmental health , chemistry , biology , sociology , organic chemistry
The study attempted to add years of follow-up to an earlier study describing excess leukemia among workers exposed to benzene-based glues in a shoe-factory and to conduct a quantitative exposure assessment of the exposure to benzene and the risk of leukemia.