Mortality among British asbestos workers undergoing regular medical examinations (1971-2005)

Abstract

Known associations between asbestos exposure and mortality from lung, peritoneal and pleural cancers, mesothelioma and asbestosis were confirmed, and evidence of associations with stroke and stomach cancer mortality was observed. Limited evidence suggested that asbestos-related disease risk may be lower among those first exposed in more recent times.

Occupational exposure to asbestos is associated with increased mortality in men recruited for a population-based study in Germany

“…The significant association of the duration of occupational exposure to asbestos with all-cause mortality and benign lung disease mortality, respectively, underline the validity of our findings. Although we did not observe a statistically significant association between occupational exposure to asbestos and mortality from all cancers or lung cancer, in particular we observed positive non-significant trends that were in line with previous findings [9,15,21,23]. A borderline significant association of the duration of occupational exposure to asbestos with lung cancer mortality may support the assumption of causality between exposure to asbestos dust and lung cancer.…”

“…Associations of occupational exposure to asbestos with increased mortality risk due to esophageal cancer [28], cancer of the small intestine [28] or cancer of the large intestine [29] have only been detected in single cohort studies. Increased mortality from stomach cancer in asbestos exposed subjects has previously been observed in several cohort studies [9,[30][31][32].…”

“…There are conflicting results on whether asbestos may be responsible for further, extra-pulmonary diseases. Several studies suggest that asbestos exposure increases the risk for mortality from extra-pulmonary neoplasms [8][9][10] whereas others did not find such associations [8]. Furthermore, non-population-based cohort studies showed that the joint effects of smoking and asbestos led to an increased risk for lung cancer mortality in smokers who were occupationally exposed to asbestos [11][12][13][14].…”

“…All-cause mortality and respiratory mortality As in SHIP, significantly increased risks for all-cause mortality [6,9,20,21] and benign lung disease mortality [7,22,23] had previously been observed. The significant association of the duration of occupational exposure to asbestos with all-cause mortality and benign lung disease mortality, respectively, underline the validity of our findings.…”

Characteristics of Generated Fibrous/Particulate Matters from Asbestos-Containing Building Materials(ACBMs)

“…수의 석면시멘트 폐자재를 발생시키고 있다 (Harding et al, 2009 (Spurny, 1989;Ansari et al, 2007;Campopiano et al, 2009;Kakooei et al, 2009;Krakowiak et al, 2009;Pastuszka, 2009), 다양한 기계적 작업 중에 발 생되는 석면섬유 방출에 관한 연구도 진행되었다 (Preat, 1993;Pastuszka, 2009). 우리나라의 경우에는 2000년도 이후에 비산석면 농도 방출에 대한 연구가 있었으며 (Choi et al, 2002;Kim et al, 2009;Kim et al, 2010), 최근에는 토양 중 비산석면 특성에 관한 연구가 진행되었다 (Kwon et al, 2014) …”