ArticleOccupational and environmental medicine2020
Occupational exposure to soft paper dust and mortality.
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- Work-Related Asthma From Exposure to Cardboard and Paper Products.American journal of industrial medicine · 2026Article
- Occupational airborne exposures and asthma mortality - examining asthma as the underlying and contributing cause of death.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2025Article
- Personal inhalable paper dust exposure and potential determinants among paper industry workers in Ethiopia.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2024Article
- Mortality risk associated with occupational exposures in people with small airways obstruction.PloS one · 2024Article
- Occupational exposure to noise and dust in Swedish soft paper mills and mortality from ischemic heart disease and ischemic stroke: a cohort study.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2023Article
- Assessment of paper dust exposure and chronic respiratory symptoms among paper factory workers in, Ethiopia; a comparative cross-sectional study.BMC pulmonary medicine · 2023Article
- Transmission factors and exposure to infections at work and invasive pneumococcal disease.American journal of industrial medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectivesOccupational exposure to soft paper dust is associated with impaired lung function. Whether there is an increased risk for asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is unclear.
methodsWe studied 7870 workers from three Swedish soft paper mills, and defined high-exposed workers, as having been exposed to soft paper dust exceeding 5 mg/m
resultsThere was an increased mortality due to obstructive lung disease (asthma and COPD), among high-exposed workers, SMR 1.89, 95% CI 1.20 to 2.83, based on 23 observed cases. High-exposed workers had an increased mortality from asthma, SMR 4.13, 95% CI 1.78 to 8.14, based on eight observed cases. The increased asthma mortality was also observed among high-exposed men, SMR 4.38, 95% CI 1.42 to 10.2, based on five observed cases. The asthma mortality among low-exposed workers, both men and women, was not increased. The COPD mortality was not clearly increased among high-exposed workers (SMR 1.52, 95% CI 0.85 to 2.50).
conclusionHigh occupational exposure to soft paper dust increases the mortality due to asthma, and the results suggest that soft paper dust levels in workplaces should be below 5 mg/m
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