Co-operative project "Case-control-study into the relationship between exposure to respirable quartz dust and lung cancer", sub-project "Planning, data collection, evaluation

Status:

completed 12/1995

Aims:

The senate commission of the German Research Foundation requires new significant scientific knowledge in order to produce a classification of quartz dust in accordance with the actual risk to health. Goal: determining the risk of lung carcinomas for persons exposed to quartz dust (in connection with project BG02#004)

Activities/Methods:

Epidemiological study: production of a study plan including inquiry and recording sheets; recording the data obtained from project BG02#004; evaluation of data; illustration and evaluation of results

Results:

No significant indication of an association between exposure to quartz dust and lung carcinomas; in the quarrymen's BG groups the 95 % confidence intervals of the relative risk (OR) during exposure were beyond the current valid MAK-value of 0.74 to 2.79, in the glass and ceramics BG groups from 0.4 to 1.2.

Publications:

Ulm, Kraus, Ehnes, Thomas, Schwebig: Fall-Kontrollstudie zur Untersuchung des Zusammenhangs zwischen Quarzfeinstaub und Lungenkarzinom. Zbl Arbeitsmedizin Bd. 45 (1995) Nr. 2, S. 50-58

Einstufung von Quarzfeinstaub. Die BG (1996) Nr. 11, S. 742

Ulm, Waschulzik: Quarzfeinstaub und Lungenkarzinom. Schriftenreihe des HVBG 8/1998

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