PT Journal AU Minder, CE Vader, JP TI Malignant pleural mesothelioma among Swiss furniture workers. A new high-risk group. SO Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health PD 8VL PY 1988 BP 252 EP 256 IS 4 DI 10.5271/sjweh.1924 WP https://www.sjweh.fi/show_abstract.php?abstract_id=1924 DE asbestos; furniture worker; high risk; high-risk group; mesothelioma; methology of mortality study; mortality; numerator–denominator bias; pleural mesothelioma; Switzerland; wood dust; wood working SN 0355-3140 AB

Within the framework of a research project concerning occupational mortality, attention was drawn to a highly significant standardized mortality ratio for mesothelioma among furniture workers. From information drawn from the mortality records for the years 1979-1985 and from the 1980 national census, the number of pleural mesotheliomas among this occupational group was examined. The expected number of deaths from pleural mesothelioma among Swiss furniture workers for this period was 4.4; the observed number was 12. This finding indicates a 2.7-fold relative risk (P = 0.004) for death due to these cancers among Swiss furniture workers.

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