Diesel exhaust and lung cancer mortality in potash mining
Säverin, Robert ; Bräunlich, Antina ; Dahmann, Dirk ; Enderlein, Gottfried ; Heuchert, Gerd
American Journal of Industrial Medicine
1999
36
4
415-422
determination in air ; diesel engine ; dust measurement ; exhaust gases ; exposure ; exposure records ; lung cancer ; mortality ; potash mining ; underground mining
Occupational diseases
English
Bibliogr.
This study investigated the association between lung cancer mortality and exposure to diesel exhaust in a cohort of 5,536 potash miners who were followed from 1970 to 1994. Results showed a doubling of relative lung cancer risk after twenty years of exposure in the workplaces with highest exposure to diesel fumes.
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