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2710172

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
17
pubmed:dateCreated
1989-5-26
pubmed:abstractText
Since 1981, 26 outbreaks of asthma have been detected in the city of Barcelona. The geographic clustering of cases close to the harbor led us to consider the harbor as the probable source of the outbreaks. We therefore studied the association between the unloading of 26 products from ships in the harbor and outbreaks of asthma in 1985 and 1986. All 13 asthma-epidemic days in these two years coincided with the unloading of soybeans (lower 95 percent confidence limit of the risk ratio, 7.2). Of the remaining 25 products, only the unloading of wheat was related to the epidemics of asthma, although when adjusted for the unloading of soybeans the relation was not statistically significant. High-pressure areas and mild southeasterly to southwesterly winds, which favored the movement of air from the harbor to the city, were registered on all epidemic days. Particles of starch and episperm cells that were recovered from air samplers placed in the city had morphologic characteristics identical to those of soybean particles. Furthermore, the lack of bag filters at the top of one of the harbor silos into which soybeans were unloaded allowed the release of soybean dust into the air. We conclude that these outbreaks of asthma in Barcelona were caused by the inhalation of soybean dust released during the unloading of soybeans at the city harbor.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Apr
pubmed:issn
0028-4793
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
27
pubmed:volume
320
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1097-102
pubmed:dateRevised
2006-11-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1989
pubmed:articleTitle
Community outbreaks of asthma associated with inhalation of soybean dust. Toxicoepidemiological Committee.
pubmed:affiliation
Department d'Epidemiologia, Institut Municipal d'Investigació Mèdica, Barcelona, Spain.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't