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ArticleAnnals of occupational and environmental medicine2021

Hospital admissions due to endocrine diseases in Korean male firefighters.

Seunghoon Ryu, Yong-Jin Lee, Eun-Chul Jang, Soon-Chan Kwon, KiSeok Kim, Yeon-Soon Ahn, Young-Sun Min

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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. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Seunghoon RyuDepartment of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital, Cheonan, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7603-9727
Yong-Jin LeeDepartment of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital, Cheonan, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6712-7696
Eun-Chul JangDepartment of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital, Cheonan, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8153-2134
Soon-Chan KwonDepartment of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital, Cheonan, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5782-6087
KiSeok KimDepartment of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital, Cheonan, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5762-0137
Yeon-Soon AhnDepartment of Preventive Medicine and Genomic Cohort Institute, Yonsei University Wonju College of Medicine, Wonju, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0039-069X
Young-Sun MinDepartment of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, Soonchunhyang University Cheonan Hospital, Cheonan, Korea.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1508-0608
Soonchunhyang University · KRYonsei University · KR

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Abstract

backgroundThe aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between occupational exposure to various hazards and hospital admission due to endocrine diseases in Korean male firefighters.

methodsFrom 2000 to 2008, former and current male firefighters registered in the Korean National Emergency Management Agency were investigated based on their hospitalized health insurance admission data for the same period. Admission data for endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases were obtained from the Korean National Health Insurance Service database. Standardized admission ratio (SAR) with reference to the general population of Korean men was analyzed.

resultsSAR for firefighters with endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases was 0.56 (95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.49-0.65), which was significantly less than that of the general population of Korean men. For those with endocrine, nutritional, and metabolic diseases, SARs for those with a history of fire suppression tasks and those without experience of fire suppression tasks were 0.58 (95% CI: 0.49-0.68) and 0.53 (95% CI: 0.40-0.70), respectively.

conclusionsThe admission rate of Korean male firefighters due to endocrine, nutritional and metabolic diseases was significantly lower than that of the general Korean men population, the hazardous potential of endocrine disruptors remains an open question. Further studies of firefighters with longer follow-up are needed.

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AdmissionEndocrine diseaseEndocrine disruptorsFirefighters

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