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ArticleAnnals of occupational and environmental medicine2021

Parkinson's disease in a worker exposed to insecticides at a greenhouse.

Yangwoo Kim, Inah Kim, Jung-Min Sung, Jaechul Song

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Article in Annals of occupational and environmental medicine, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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Yangwoo KimDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Hanyang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3205-2780
Inah KimDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, College of Medicine, Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9221-5831
Jung-Min SungOccupational Safety and Health Research Institute, Korea Occupational Safety and Health Agency, Incheon, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4519-465X
Jaechul SongDepartment of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Hanyang University Hospital, Seoul, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1265-0337

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundParkinson's disease (PD) is a rare, neurodegenerative disease with various occupational and environmental risk factors. Exposure to specific pesticides contributes significantly to the incidence of PD. However, it is difficult to measure the level of pesticide exposure in workers. This study presents the first case recognized the work-relatedness between PD and pesticide exposure. CASE PRESENTATION: A 68-year-old male was diagnosed with PD after working with pesticides at a tomato greenhouse for 12 years and 5 months. From the results of a field study, it was reasonable to assume that the patient had been exposed to a significant level of various insecticides. In the present report, we described the first accepted case of work-relatedness between PD and exposure to pesticides. The evaluation was conducted using the following steps: we ruled out other possible risk factors including additional occupational history and personal risk factors, we assessed the work environment, surveyed possible exposures, found proper epidemiological evidence, and calculated the probability of causation. The work-relatedness was determined through the review of epidemiological evidence and estimation of exposure situation and level, and biological plausibility. We also decided work-relatedness based on the exposure of PD related pesticides with identified biologically plausible and the presumption that the exposure level would be high due to the working process.

conclusionsIn this case, the field study and epidemiological results supported the work-relatedness of PD and exposure to pesticides. Moreover, the results of previous studies have confirmed a causal relationship between exposure to pesticides and PD.

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Occupational exposure, FarmersParkinson diseasePesticides

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PMCPMC7952772

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