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9327068

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
1997-11-14
pubmed:abstractText
A total of 1,811 automobile workers at three General Motors facilities were evaluated by questionnaire for possible respiratory effects resulting from airborne exposures to metal-working fluids (MWF): 1,042 currently worked as machinists and were exposed to one of three types of MWF aerosols (straight mineral oils, soluble oil emulsions, or water-based synthetic fluids that contained no oils); 769 assembly workers, without direct exposure, served as an internal reference group (of these, 239 had never worked as machinists). Symptoms of usual cough, usual phlegm, wheezing, chest tightness, and breathlessness, as well as physician-diagnosed asthma, and chronic bronchitis were the primary outcomes examined. Machinists as a whole had higher prevalence of cough, phlegm, wheezing, and breathlessness than that of assembly workers. Adjusting for confounding, phlegm and wheeze were associated with increasing levels of current exposure to straight oils; cough, phlegm, wheeze, chest tightness, and chronic bronchitis were associated with increasing levels of current exposure to synthetics. In models that included both past and current exposure, only current exposures to straight and synthetic fluids were associated with current symptoms.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
0271-3586
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
32
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
450-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1997
pubmed:articleTitle
Respiratory health of automobile workers exposed to metal-working fluid aerosols: respiratory symptoms.
pubmed:affiliation
Division of Environmental and Occupational Health, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455, USA. igreaves@cccs.umn.edu
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Multicenter Study