Non-cancer mortality in poultry slaughtering/processing plant workers belonging to a union pension fund.
Non-cancer mortality in poultry slaughtering/processing plant workers belonging to a union pension fund.
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属于工会养老基金的家禽屠宰/加工厂工人的非癌症死亡率。
DOI：
10.1016/j.envint.2010.09.007
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
11.8
通讯作者：
Ndetan,Harrison
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作者：
Johnson,EricS;Ndetan,Harrison
背景生物环境在许多慢性人类疾病发生中的作用研究甚少。人类通常接触可传播的病原体，感染并导致鸡和火鸡的各种亚急性和慢性病。本研究的目的是通过研究家禽屠宰和加工厂的工人是否会导致类似的人类疾病，这些工人是人类接触这些毒剂的最高人群之一。方法通过标准化死亡率的估计，将家禽工人的死亡率与美国普通人群的死亡率进行比较。此外，还观察到涉及心血管、神经、内分泌、胃肠和生殖系统的多个部位的死亡事件，尽管在某些情况下涉及的数量很少。结论结果表明，家禽从业人员死于包括感染在内的某些死因的风险增加。这与其他报告一致。虽然职业接触家禽中存在的传染性物质可能是这些疾病大量发生的原因之一，但由于研究设计的性质而没有考虑的其他因素也可能同样重要。此外，在某些情况下涉及的死亡人数很少，因此在解释结果时需要谨慎。然而，这项研究很重要，因为它在新确定的需要进一步研究的领域取得了成功，这些领域可能不仅对工人，而且对普通民众都有影响。
BACKGROUNDThe role of the biological environment in the occurrence of many chronic human diseases has been little studied. Humans are commonly exposed to transmissible agents that infect and cause a wide variety of subacute and chronic diseases in chickens and turkeys. The objective of this study is to investigate whether these agents cause similar diseases in humans, by studying workers in poultry slaughtering and processing plants who have one of the highest human exposures to these agents.METHODSMortality in poultry workers was compared with that in the United States general population through the estimation of standardized mortality ratios.RESULTSExcess mortality from infectious and parasitic diseases was observed in the poultry workers. In addition, excess occurrences of deaths involving several sites of the cardiovascular, neurological, endocrine, gastrointestinal and reproductive systems, were observed, although the numbers involved were few in some instances.CONCLUSIONThe results indicate that poultry workers are at increased risk of dying from certain causes of death, including infections. This is consistent with other reports. Although it is possible that occupational exposure to transmissible agents present in poultry may be one of the causes of the excess occurrence of some of these diseases, other factors that were not considered because of the nature of the study design, could be equally important. Also, the small number of deaths involved in some instances calls for caution in interpreting the results. However, the study is important, as it has succeeded in newly identified areas that need further research, and which may have implications not only for workers, but also for the general population.