[Chronic bronchitis, inguinal hernia and other health disorders. Correlation with heaviness of occupation (author's transl)].
68.8% of the workers of a metal factory have at least one pathological finding out of 11 parameters checked. The number of sick people increases from 57.1% in sedentary workers, to 64.5% in workers doing light or medium physical work, and 77.2% in heavy physical workers. The strongest trend, postulating a positive correlation between work and disease, can be found with the objective signs "chronic bronchitis", "inguinal hernia", and "pathological urine". Contrary to this positive trend in most medical findings, only hypertension and electrocardiographic changes are less frequent in heavy physical workers. The results obtained suggest, on the whole, an interrelationship between sickness and heavy physical work.
D001991:Bronchitis / Q000209:etiology*; D006552:Hernia, Inguinal / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008669:Metallurgy; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D005082:Physical Exertion; D014570:Urologic Diseases / Q000209:etiology
Chronische Bronchitis, Leistenhernien und andere Gesundheitsstörungen. Abhängigkeit von der Schwere der Berufsarbeit.