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ArticleJournal of occupational and environmental medicine2012

Neurologic symptoms associated with cattle farming in the agricultural health study.

Leora Vegosen, Meghan F Davis, Ellen Silbergeld, Patrick N Breysse, Jacqueline Agnew, Gregory Gray, Laura Beane Freeman, Freya Kamel

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Article in Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 42% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 4 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Zoonotic Transmission ofFrontiers in microbiology · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.

Leora VegosenDepartment of Environmental Health Sciences, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA. lvegosen@jhsph.edu
Meghan F Davis
Ellen Silbergeld
Patrick N Breysse
Jacqueline Agnew
Gregory Gray
Laura Beane Freeman
Freya Kamel
Johns Hopkins University · USNational Institutes of Health · USUniversity of Florida · USNational Cancer Institute · US

Funding

Health Effects Of Exposures In AgricultureZIAES049030 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI SANDLER, DALE P · 2009 to 2025
$11.2M
STUDIES OF OCCUPATIONAL CANCER--PESTICIDESZ01CP010119 · NCI · DIVISION OF CANCER EPIDEMIOLOGY AND GENETICS · PI ALAVANJA, MICHAEL · 1996 to 2008
$5.0M
HEALTH EFFECTS OF EXPOSURES IN AGRICULTUREZ01ES049030 · NIEHS · NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH SCIENCES · PI SANDLER, DALE P · 1997 to 2008
$889k
ACL HHS T42OH008428Intramural NIH HHS Z01 CP010119Intramural NIH HHS Z01 ES049030NCI NIH HHS Z01-CP010119NIOSH CDC HHS T42OH008428
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

objectiveInfection with Campylobacter jejuni, a bacterium carried by poultry and livestock, is the most frequently identified antecedent to the autoimmune neurologic condition Guillain-Barré Syndrome. We used Agricultural Health Study data to assess whether cattle farming was associated with prevalence of neurologic symptoms.

methodsPrevalence of self-reported symptoms in cattle farmers (n = 8878) was compared with farmers who did not work with animals (n = 7462), using multivariate regression.

resultsPrevalence of numbness and weakness were increased for beef and dairy farmers compared with the reference group (P < 0.0001). Of cattle farmers, 48% did not report raising other animal species, and prevalence of numbness and weakness were also increased in this subgroup compared with the reference group (P < 0.02).

conclusionsOccupational exposure to cattle was associated with increased prevalence of self-reported symptoms associated with peripheral neuropathy.

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Agricultural Workers' DiseasesAnimal HusbandryAnimalsCattleCohort StudiesFemaleHumansIncidenceIowaMaleMiddle AgedMultivariate AnalysisNorth CarolinaOccupational DiseasesOccupational ExposurePeripheral Nervous System Diseases

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PMID22975665
PMCPMC3671876
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