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ArticleFrontiers in public health2022

Improvements in protective measures in factories with acetylene hydrochlorination and ethylene oxychlorination techniques declined risk assessment levels and affected liver health status.

Yiwen Dong, Xingang Wang, Weijiang Hu, Hongying Bian, Xin Wang, Ning Kang, Feng Han, Siyu Zhang, Meng Ye

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Article in Frontiers in public health, 2022. 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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3 · Its place in the literature

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Yiwen DongDepartment of Occupational Epidemiology and Risk Assessment, National Institute for Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
Xingang WangDepartment of Occupational Health and Radiological Health, Tianjin Binhai New Area Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Tianjin, China.
Weijiang HuDepartment of Occupational Epidemiology and Risk Assessment, National Institute for Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
Hongying BianDepartment of Occupational Epidemiology and Risk Assessment, National Institute for Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
Xin WangDepartment of Occupational Epidemiology and Risk Assessment, National Institute for Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
Ning KangDepartment of Occupational Epidemiology and Risk Assessment, National Institute for Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
Feng HanDepartment of Occupational Epidemiology and Risk Assessment, National Institute for Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
Siyu ZhangDepartment of Occupational Epidemiology and Risk Assessment, National Institute for Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
Meng YeDepartment of Occupational Epidemiology and Risk Assessment, National Institute for Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Acetylene hydrochlorination and ethylene oxychlorination are the two most common methods of producing vinyl chloride monomer (VCM), which has been linked to liver impairment, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), and angiosarcoma of the liver (ASL) in occupational settings. However, whether and how these impairments could be effectively improved from workplace root causes has yet to be discovered. This study aimed to evaluate whether improvements in protective measures in groups Y (408 subjects) and Z (349 subjects) could have an influential impact on the alleviation of liver impairment by comparing risk assessment levels under several semi-quantitative models and results from liver ultrasound detection and liver function tests before and after the improvement. Importantly, significant differences in constituent ratio involved in parameters among age, length of employment, weekly exposure time, smoking status, alcohol consumption, and sleeping quality were found between Y and Z before improvement took place in 2020 (

Indexed as

Carcinoma, HepatocellularLiver NeoplasmsAcetyleneEthylenesHealth StatusHumansRisk AssessmentAcetyleneethyleneEthylenesacetylene hydrochlorinationethylene oxychlorinationfatty liverfresh air requirementimprovement on protective measuresoccupational health risk assessmentother hepatic symptomsVCM

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PMID36483242
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