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Title: | Occupational Exposure to Petroleum Products and Respiratory Health A Cross-Sectional Study From Algeria | Authors: | Sekkal, Samira Haddam, Nahida Scheers, Hans Poels, Katrien L. Bouhacina, Linda NAWROT, Tim Veulemans, Hendrik A. Taleb, Abdesselam Nemery, Benoit |
Issue Date: | 2012 | Publisher: | LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS | Source: | JOURNAL OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL MEDICINE, 54 (11), p. 1382-1388 | Abstract: | Objective: To investigate the possible impact of long-term occupational exposure to hydrocarbons on respiratory health. Methods: Respiratory health was assessed by questionnaires, spirometry, and exhaled nitric oxide in 250 male workers from a company handling and distributing refined petroleum products (exposed) and 250 electricians (controls). Exposure to hydrocarbons was assessed by personal air monitoring. Results: Aerial exposure to hydrocarbons was low. Respiratory and nasal symptoms were significantly more frequent among exposed subjects than among controls. Although forced vital capacity and forced expiratory volume in 1 second did not differ, ratio of forced expiratory volume in 1 second to forced vital capacity and maximal expiratory flows were significantly lower in exposed than in control subjects, adjusting for smoking. Exhaled nitric oxide was significantly higher among exposed subjects (30.1 ppb) than among controls (21.6 ppb), adjusting for age and smoking. Conclusions: Even low exposure to petroleum-derived hydrocarbons is associated with more respiratory and nasal symptoms, lower pulmonary function, and airway inflammation. | Notes: | Nemery, B (reprint author)[Scheers, Hans; Nawrot, Tim S.; Nemery, Benoit] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Dept Publ Hlth, Div Occupat Environm & Insurance Med, Res Unit Lung Toxicol, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium. [Poels, Katrien L.; Veulemans, Hendrik A.] Katholieke Univ Leuven, Dept Publ Hlth, Div Occupat Environm & Insurance Med, Lab Occupat Hyg & Toxicol, B-3000 Louvain, Belgium. [Sekkal, Samira; Haddam, Nahida; Bouhacina, Linda; Taleb, Abdesselam] Univ Abou Bekr, Fac Med, Lab Med Toxicol Toximed, Tilimsen, Algeria. [Nawrot, Tim S.] Hasselt Univ, Ctr Environm Sci, Diepenbeek, Belgium. ben.nemery@med.kuleuven.be | Keywords: | Public, Environmental & Occupational Health; exhaled nitric-oxide; volatile organic-compounds; lung-function; airway inflammation; symptoms; standardization; neurotoxicity; population; benzene; smoking | Document URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1942/14484 | ISSN: | 1076-2752 | e-ISSN: | 1536-5948 | DOI: | 10.1097/JOM.0b013e31825fa6c9 | ISI #: | 000310915900011 | Category: | A1 | Type: | Journal Contribution | Validations: | ecoom 2013 |
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