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Journal Article
Mortality of former crocidolite (blue asbestos) miners and millers at Wittenoom
2008
Overview
Background: Blue asbestos was mined and milled at Wittenoom in Western Australia between 1943 and 1966. Methods: Nearly 7000 male workers who worked at the Wittenoom mine and mill have been followed up using death and cancer registries throughout Australia and Italy to the end of 2000. Person-years at risk were derived using two censoring dates in order to produce minimum and maximum estimates of asbestos effect. Standardised mortality ratios (SMRs) compare the mortality of the former Wittenoom workers with the Western Australian male population. Results: There have been 190 cases of pleural and 32 cases of peritoneal mesothelioma in this cohort of former workers at Wittenoom. Mortality from lung cancer (SMR = 1.52), pneumoconiosis (SMR = 15.5), respiratory diseases (SMR = 1.58), tuberculosis (SMR = 3.06), digestive diseases (SMR = 1.47), alcoholism (SMR = 2.24) and symptoms, signs and ill defined conditions (SMR = 2.00) were greater in this cohort compared to the Western Australian male population. Conclusion: Asbestos related diseases, particularly malignant mesothelioma, lung cancer and pneumoconiosis, continue to be the main causes of excess mortality in the former blue asbestos miners and millers of Wittenoom.
Publisher
BMJ Publishing Group Ltd,BMJ Publishing Group,BMJ,BMJ Publishing Group LTD
Subject
/ Aged
/ Alcohol
/ Asbestos
/ Asbestos, Crocidolite - toxicity
/ Biological and medical sciences
/ Chemical and industrial products toxicology. Toxic occupational diseases
/ Death
/ Humans
/ Inorganic dusts (pneumoconiosises) and organic dusts (byssinosis etc.)
/ Male
/ Mining
/ Occupational Exposure - adverse effects
/ Peritoneal Neoplasms - mortality
/ Pleural Neoplasms - mortality
/ Respiratory Tract Diseases - mortality
/ Smoking
/ Studies
/ Symptoms
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