A mortality study of cement workers.
Occupational exposure to dust has been linked with excess mortality from stomach cancer. To examine this hypothesis in respect of cement workers the mortality of a group of men, identified as cement workers in 1939, was followed up from 1948 to 1981. An excess of mortality from stomach cancer was found which is not thought to be explained by the social class distribution of the study population. Mortality from respiratory disease was not increased.
D000328:Adult; D002126:Calcium Hydroxide / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004739:England; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000401:mortality*; D012140:Respiratory Tract Diseases / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality; D012923:Social Class; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality*
D002126:Calcium Hydroxide