Acute and chronic health effects due to green tobacco exposure in agricultural workers
Acute and chronic health effects due to green tobacco exposure in agricultural workers
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DOI：
10.1002/ajim.20162
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发表时间：
2005-06-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
Saiyed, HN
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作者：
Parikh, JR;Gokani, VN;Saiyed, HN
背景在印度古吉拉特邦进行了一项流行病学研究，以研究职业暴露于绿色tobacco.Methods的急性和慢性健康影响非烤烟弗吉尼亚（FCV）烟草是主要作物在许多地区的古吉拉特邦中部。从阿南德区选择了三个村庄进行研究，并随机抽取了685名接触工人进行了检查。结果烟草作业工人绿色烟草病（GTS）总患病率为47.0%;女工患病率为55.7%，男工患病率为42.66%。为了检测所有工人的高血压、心电图（ECG）异常和眼部问题以及女工的生殖异常对健康的慢性影响，所有受试者都接受了体检。接触组与对照组比较，差异无统计学意义。结论非FCV烟草作业工人GTS患病率较高。然而，从严重程度来看，可将其视为轻度急性尼古丁毒性，无需药物即可缓解。在慢性健康影响方面，烟草工人和对照工人之间没有观察到显著差异。(c)2005年威利-利斯。
Background An epidemiological study was undertaken in Gujarat, India to study the acute and chronic health effects of occupational exposure to green tobacco.Methods Non-Flue Cured Virginia (FCV) tobacco is the main crop in many districts of Central Gujarat. Three villages were selected from Anand district for the study and a random sample of 685 exposed workers were examined. Six hundred and fifty-five control workers with the same socio-economic status were examined from two villages where tobacco was not cultivated.Results The overall prevalence of green tobacco sickness (GTS) was 47.0% among tobacco workers. The prevalence in women workers was 55.7% while in men workers it was 42.66%. To detect the chronic health effects prevalence of hypertension, electrocardiogram (ECG) abnormalities, and eye problems in all the workers and reproductive abnormalities in women workers, all subjects received a medical examination. The data were compared in exposed and control group but they were nonsignificant statistically. No case of tobacco amblyopia was detected.Conclusion The prevalence of GTS among non-FCV tobacco workers is high. However, from viewpoint of severity it can be considered as mild acute nicotine toxicity, which is relieved without medication. No significant difference is observed as regards to chronic health effects among tobacco workers and control workers. (c) 2005 Wiley-Liss.