Characteristics of pesticide use in a pesticide applicator cohort: The Agricultural Health Study
Characteristics of pesticide use in a pesticide applicator cohort: The Agricultural Health Study
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DOI：
10.1006/enrs.1998.3888
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发表时间：
1999-02-01
影响因子：
8.3
通讯作者：
Blair, A
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作者：
Alavanja, MCR;Sandler, DP;Blair, A
在农业健康研究的前2年，从35，879名限制使用的农药施用者中收集了有关最近和历史农药使用、农药施用方法和农场特征的数据，该研究是一项前瞻性研究，在爱荷华州和北卡罗来纳州进行，对一大批私人和商业许可的农药施用者进行了研究。(In在爱荷华州，申请人实际上是“认证”的，而在北卡罗来纳州，他们是“许可证”的;为了便于参考，本文将使用许可证一词来表示这两个州。）商业施用者（仅在爱荷华州进行研究）每年施用杀虫剂的天数比两个州的私人施用者多。当使用斯皮尔曼决定系数（r（2））比较不同群体使用的农药类型时，我们发现爱荷华州私人和爱荷华州商业施药者倾向于使用相同类型的农药（r（2）= 0.88）。白色和非白色的私人施药者倾向于使用相同类型的杀虫剂（北卡罗来纳州r（2）= 0.89），男性和女性私人施药者也是如此（爱荷华州r（2）= 0.85和北卡罗来纳州r（2）= 0.84）。爱荷华州和北卡罗来纳州私人施药者使用的杀虫剂类型之间的相似性较小（r（2）= 0.50）。爱荷华州的私人施药者比北卡罗来纳州的私人施药者使用个人防护设备的比例更大，而且各州的施药方法也各不相同。这种异质性的潜在暴露于农药之间的状态应该是有用的，随后的流行病学分析使用内部比较组。(C)北京：科学出版社.
Data on recent and historic pesticide use, pesticide application methods, and farm characteristics were collected from 35,879 restricted-use pesticide applicators in the first 2 years of the Agricultural Health Study, a prospective study of a large cohort of private and commercial licensed pesticide applicators that is being conducted in Iowa and North Carolina. (In Iowa, applicators are actually "certified," while in North Carolina they are "licensed"; for ease of reference the term license will be used for both states in this paper.) Commercial applicators (studied in Iowa only) apply pesticides more days per year than private applicators in either state. When the types of pesticides being used by different groups are compared using the Spearman coefficient of determination (r(2)), we find that Iowa private and Iowa commercial applicators tend to use the same type of pesticides (r(2) = 0.88). White and non-white private applicators tended to use the same type of pesticides (North Carolina r(2) = 0.89), as did male and female private applicators (Iowa r(2) = 0.85 and North Carolina r(2) = 0.84). There was less similarity (r(2) = 0.50) between the types of pesticides being used by Iowa and North Carolina private applicators. A greater portion of Iowa private applicators use personal protective equipment than do North Carolina private applicators, and pesticide application methods varied by state. This heterogeneity in potential exposures to pesticides between states should be useful for subsequent epidemiologic analyses using internal comparison groups. (C) 1999 Academic Press.