ArticleAnnals of occupational and environmental medicine2016
Emphysema prevalence related air pollution caused by a cement plant.
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- Cement Industry Pollution and Its Impact on the Environment and Population Health: A Review.Toxics · 2025Review
- Assessing heavy metal contamination and health risks in playground dust near cement factory: exposure levels in children.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2024Article
- Exposure assessment of particulate matter and blood chromium levels in people living near a cement plant.Environmental geochemistry and health · 2018Article
- Exposure to Traffic Emissions and Fine Particulate Matter and Computed Tomography Measures of the Lung and Airways.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2018Article
- Air pollution and urinary n-acetyl-B-glucosaminidase levels in residents living near a cement plant.Annals of occupational and environmental medicine · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundTo identify adverse pulmonary health effects due to air pollution derived from a cement plant in Korea. The emphysema prevalence in residents around a cement plant was compared to that in the group who live far away from the plant by chest films (PA and lateral view) and high-resolution computed tomography (HRCT) lung images.
methodsFrom June to August in 2013 and from August to November in 2014, chest films and HRCT scan were conducted on residents over the age of 40 who lived around a cement plant. The residents were divided into two groups; a "more exposed group (MEG)" which consisted of 1,046 people who lived within a 1 km radius and a "less exposed group (LEG)" which consisted of 317 people who lived more than 5 km away from the same plant. We compared the emphysema prevalence and estimated the OR of this between the MEG and the LEG by using a chi-square and logistic regression on chest films and HRCT.
resultsThe emphysema prevalence was 9.1 % in the LEG, 14.3 % in the MEG on chest films and 11.4 %, 17.8 % on the HRCT, respectively. The OR of the emphysema prevalence in MEG was 2.92 (95 % CI 1.77-4.83) on the chest films, 2.56 (95 % CI 1.64-3.99) on the HRCT after sex, age, body mass index (BMI), smoking history, residency period and firewood used history were adjusted. The OR in the less than 29 pack-years smoking history was 1.66 (95 % CI 0.92-3.06) and in the more than 30 pack-years was 3.05 (95 % CI 1.68-5.52) on the chest films, and was 1.68 (95 % CI 0.98-2.90), 2.93 (95 % CI 1.72-4.98) on the HRCT, respectively.
conclusionThe emphysema prevalence seems to be affected by the level of exposure to air pollution derived from the cement plant as well as sex, age, BMI, and smoking history in this study. Moreover, the OR of the case of the more exposed to the air pollution was similar to that of the case in smoking.
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