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E Matos

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PubMed1996

Occupational handicap in victims of limb injuries.

The authors analysed 115 victims of limb injuries due to traffic accidents, to compare the medico-legal assessment by the rate of permanent disability (PD) with a tridimensional evaluation of the damage (lesion, function and situation), from a professional aspect. There was a high correlation between PD and lesional and functional sequelae. However, in professional situations only with those who were working full-time was there a high correlation with PD. PD gives only a lesional assessment. The authors propose a professional damage evaluation which considers the handicap of the individual in her/his ordinary work besides the lesion and function, as long as the assessment is personal and it is meant to reintegrate the victim completely in her/his professional life.

Accidents, Traffic↗
PubMed1996

Use of the Pap test by a population group in Buenos Aires.

The study reported here sought to assess Pap test coverage of a group of asymptomatic Argentine women from the poor urban district of La Matanza in the Buenos Aires metropolitan area Initially, all 2495 women who voluntarily enrolled in a program for early detection of breast cancer between January 1991 and June 1993 were included. After removing those who did not meet various study criteria, there remained 779 study subjects with no gynecologic or mammary symptomatology. Two subgroups of these 779 were established-women who had received a Pap test at any time and those who had received such a test within the previous three years. Using these subgroups, the influence of certain sociodemographic and other variables upon the likelihood of Pap testing was assessed. The results indicated significant associations between past Pap testing and age, formal education, parity, and a family history of cancer Likewise, significant associations were found between Pap testing within the preceding three years and age, formal education, and parity. The study findings affirm the idea that it would be advisable to seek Pap testing for all study population women once every three years instead of every year. Since the study population was not necessarily representative of Buenos Aires population, however, and the findings could have been affected by self-selection and other biases, additional studies are needed to determine actual Pap test coverage among women of the metropolitan area.

Adult↗
PubMed1995

Pooled reanalysis of cancer mortality among five cohorts of workers in wood-related industries.

OBJECTIVES: To provide more information regarding the risk of cancer associated with wood dust, a pooled reanalysis of data from five cohort studies was performed. METHODS: The combined cohort consisted of 28,704 persons from five studies: British furniture workers, members of the union representing furniture workers in the United States, two cohorts of plywood workers, and one of wood model makers, among whom 7665 deaths occurred. Pooled analyses were carried out for all of the cohorts combined, the two furniture worker cohorts combined, and the two plywood workers cohorts combined. RESULTS: Significant excesses of nasal [observed 11, standardized mortality ratio (SMR) 3.1, 95% confidence interval (95% CI) 1.6-5.6] and nasopharyngeal (observed 9, SMR 2.4, 95% CI 1.1-4.5) cancer were observed. That for nasal cancer appeared to be associated with exposure to wood dust but was based solely on cases from the British furniture worker cohort, while that of nasopharyngeal cancer was observed for furniture and plywood workers and was associated with both high and low probability of wood dust exposure. Some support for an excess risk of multiple myeloma was also observed but was less clearly associated with wood dust exposure. No excesses of lung, larynx, stomach, or colon cancer were found to be associated with any surrogate indicators of wood dust exposure. CONCLUSIONS: Workers exposed to wood dust may have an excess risk of nasopharyngeal cancer and multiple myeloma in addition to sinonasal cancer. The limitations of this study would tend to obscure relationships, rather than create false positive findings.

Cause of Death↗
PubMed1994

Headaches in medical school students.

Medical students of the Instituto de Ciências Biomédicas 'Abel Salazar' at the University of Oporto were interviewed using a structured headache questionnaire in order to assess the prevalence and characteristics of headaches in a young adult university population. This was the first population-based study of headaches in Portugal. 491 students were questioned. The parameters evaluated included age, sex, headache characteristics (frequency, localization, severity, duration), premonitory and associated symptoms and family history. Headaches were classified using the Ad Hoc Committee (1962) and the International Headache Society (1988) criteria. There was a high prevalence of overall headaches in this young population. The results of the application of these two types of criteria to the same population showed for the most prevalent forms, migraine and tension-type headaches, a prevalence that depends on the classification adopted and the number of criteria items considered. If all (9 items) were used, the statistics obtained for migraine were 6.9% (Ad Hoc) and 6.1% (IHS), an insignificant difference, and for tension-type headache 14.3% (Ad Hoc) and 16.0% (IHS), which corresponds to a significant difference (p = 0.0129, McNemar test). It is concluded that IHS classification criteria identify less cases of migraine and more cases of tension-type headaches, which means a higher specificity for migraine and a higher sensitivity for tension-type headache.

Adolescent↗
PubMed1994

Occupational exposures to carcinogens in developing countries.

There have been very few studies of exposure to occupational carcinogens in developing countries, and even fewer studies of the health consequences of such exposures. However, all industrial chemicals, occupations and industrial processes classified by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as Group 1 or Group 2A (carcinogenic or possibly carcinogenic to humans) have been described in developing countries, and there is growing concern that the health impact of many chemicals used in the developing world has been underestimated. In all regions a very large workforce is employed in the construction industry, in which substantial exposure to asbestos may occur, and there has been a rapid increase in production in countries such as Brazil and India. There is, for instance, a similar pattern for tyre production with a large increase in production in developing countries in the 1980s. Thus, the number of workers in industries entailing a carcinogenic risk is increasing in developing countries, partly as a result of the transfer of hazardous industry from industrialized countries. There is much that could be achieved in the prevention of occupational cancer in developing countries, and there have been a number of successful initiatives. However, the greatest progress in the prevention of occupational cancer in developing countries is most likely to come from political and economic changes.

Carcinogens↗
PubMed1994

Cancer.

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Agricultural Workers' Diseases↗
PubMed1994

Other diseases.

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Asbestosis↗
PubMed1993

Prognostic factors in laryngeal carcinoma. Experience in 296 male patients.

BACKGROUND: Laryngeal cancer is the primary cause of death among patients with head and neck cancer in Argentina. Different prognostic factors have been incidentally dealt with in a number of articles, but there are few studies of prognostic variables, such as age, tobacco, and alcohol, using multifactorial analysis. METHODS: Between 1969-1987, 296 male patients with epidermoid carcinoma of the larynx treated at the Institute of Oncology "Angel H. Roffo" were studied regarding prognostic factors of survival. The effect of age, tobacco, alcohol, histologic grade, extent of primary tumor, and cord mobility on survival were assessed by means of the Cox proportional-hazards model. RESULTS: The univariate analysis showed that primary tumor extent, nodal involvement, stage, alcohol intake, previous tracheostomy, and cord mobility were statistically significant predictors of survival. Multivariate analysis disclosed only nodal involvement, alcohol intake, and cord mobility as statistically significant variables in regard to survivorship. With these variables, a hazard index was calculated for each patient, and four risk groups were formed. Five-year survival rates were as follows: Group A, 79%; B, 69%; C, 47%; and D, 14% (A versus C, P < 0.005; A versus D, P < 0.005). CONCLUSIONS: This study confirmed the prognostic impact of nodal involvement and also showed the importance of cord fixation and alcohol drinking as predictors of survival.

Aged↗
PubMed1993

Occupational cancer in developing and newly industrialized countries.

Cancer is a worldwide public health problem, accounting for an increasing proportion of all deaths. It is the second leading cause of death in most of the industrialised world, and developing countries appear to be launched on a cancer epidemic, similar to that in industrialised countries. In developing countries, most cancer deaths are due to tumours of the stomach, oesophagus, lung, liver and uterine cervix; occupational cancers account for an undetermined number of these cases. Occupationally associated neoplasms may either be related directly to specific exposures within a workplace, e.g., bladder cancer in benzidine-exposed workers, or reflect indirect factors, including socioeconomic status and conditions of life. Asbestos-induced pneumoconiosis is recognised as an occupational disease in many developing countries, whereas asbestos-related malignancies draw less attention. The rising prevalence of cigarette smoking in these countries greatly magnifies the effect of asbestos in inducing lung cancer. Transplantation of industries from developed to developing countries is often accompanied by a reduction in the standard of working conditions. The rising unemployment in developing countries is unlikely to incite workers to claim better conditions.

Animals↗