Mortalità per tumore del polmone a Casale Monferrato e rischio attribuibile al lavoro nella produzione del cemento amianto.

C. Magnani, R. Zanetti, D. Schiavo, M. Leporati, M. Botta

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Abstract

The study presents mortality rates for lung cancer in the town of Casale Monferrato, where the largest Italian asbestos cement-plant was located. Cases of lung cancer dying in 1989-94 were exhaustively searched for in the register of deaths. Each case of lung cancer has been identified as ever or never employed in the factory with a linkage to the rosters of employees in the plant. Women were also identified as ever or never married to an asbestos-cement worker. The number of person-years at risk for asbestos cement workers and their wives was measured on the basis of the most recent follow-up. Mortality rates were computed separately for those exposed (workers and wives of workers) and for those with no evidence of exposure. Mortality rates for non-exposed were similar to rates in Piedmont (the region where Casale is located). The relative risk (ever exposed vs. never exposed) was 2.8 among men and 2.1 among women. Attributable risk among the exposed was 64.5% for men and 53.1% for women while among the general population it was 18.1% for men and 13.2% for women. The study confirms the dramatic effect of occupational asbestos exposure in Casale Monferrato but does not suggest an increase in lung cancer mortality among people with no occupational activity in the asbestos-cement production.

Titolo tradotto del contributoLung cancer mortality in Casale Monferrato (Italy) and attributable risk to occupations in the asbestos-cement production
Lingua originaleItalian
pagine (da-a)338-341
Numero di pagine4
RivistaEpidemiologia e prevenzione
Volume19
Numero di pubblicazione65
Stato di pubblicazionePubblicato - dic 1995
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