ArticleEnvironmental health perspectives2011
A retrospective assessment of occupational exposure to elemental carbon in the U.S. trucking industry.
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- Indoor black carbon and biomarkers of systemic inflammation and endothelial activation in COPD patients.Environmental research · 2018Article
- Diesel Exhaust and Lung Cancer-Aftermath of Becoming an IARC Group 1 Carcinogen.American journal of epidemiology · 2018Article
- Gene expression network analyses in response to air pollution exposures in the trucking industry.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2016Article
- Short-term traffic related exposures and biomarkers of nitro-PAH exposure and oxidative DNA damage.Toxics · 2014Article
- Traffic-related exposures and biomarkers of systemic inflammation, endothelial activation and oxidative stress: a panel study in the US trucking industry.Environmental health : a global access science source · 2013Article
- Comparison of algorithm-based estimates of occupational diesel exhaust exposure to those of multiple independent raters in a population-based case-control study.The Annals of occupational hygiene · 2013Article
- Plasma fluorescent oxidation products and short-term occupational particulate exposures.American journal of industrial medicine · 2012Article
- Lung cancer and elemental carbon exposure in trucking industry workers.Environmental health perspectives · 2012Article
- Health effects research and regulation of diesel exhaust: an historical overview focused on lung cancer risk.Inhalation toxicology · 2012Article
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- Erratum issued
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Abstract
backgroundDespite considerable epidemiologic evidence about the health effects of chronic exposure to vehicle exhaust, efforts at defining the extent of risk have been limited by the lack of historical exposure measurements suitable for use in epidemiologic studies and for risk assessment.
objectivesWe sought to reconstruct exposure to elemental carbon (EC), a marker of diesel and other vehicle exhaust exposure, in a large national cohort of U.S. trucking industry workers.
methodsWe identified the predictors of measured exposures based on a statistical model and used this information to extrapolate exposures across the cohort nationally. These estimates were adjusted for changes in work-related conditions over time based on a previous exposure assessment of this industry, and for changes in background levels based on a trend analysis of historical air pollution data, to derive monthly estimates of EC exposure for each job and trucking terminal combination between 1971 and 2000.
resultsOccupational exposure to EC declined substantially over time, and we found significant variability in estimated exposures both within and across job groups, trucking terminals, and regions of the United States. Average estimated EC exposures during a typical work shift ranged from < 1 μg/m³ in the lowest exposed category in the 1990s to > 40 μg/m³ for workers in the highest exposed jobs in the 1970s.
conclusionsOur results provide a framework for understanding changes over time in exposure to EC in the U.S. trucking industry. Our assessment should minimize exposure misclassification by capturing variation among terminals and across U.S. regions, and changes over time.
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