title: [Meta analysis blood and urinary values in urban pollution exposed workers].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Aim of this study is evaluating alteration of neuro-immune-endocrine parameters in exposed workers and estimating whether urban pollution can modify them.
  
  
  METHODS
  Literature research. Different categories of exposed workers were included in the study (7287) and compared with controls (8054). To calculate results Effect Size (ES) and confidence interval were used.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A correlation between urban pollution exposition and some neurogenic mediators and metabolites alterations was demonstrated; blood values can be alterated by toxicity of benzene and by xenobiotic metabolites' mechanism; follicle stimulating hormone is significantly increased in exposed versus controls.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  High heterogeneity and literature limitations, together with results of this meta analysis, induce to believe that is necessary to deepen the research about urban pollution effects on these parameters.
authors: University of Rome "Sapienza", Department of Anatomy, Histology, Medical-Legal and the Orthopedics, Unit of Occupational Medicine, Viale Regina Elena 336, 00161 Rome, Italy.
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mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000097:blood* / Q000652:urine*; D006801:Humans; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D014504:Urban Health
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants