Sentences with phrase «workers with high exposure»

In the 1980s, investigators concluded that office workers with high exposure to EMFs from electronics had higher incidences of melanoma — a disease most often associated with sun exposure — than outdoor workers.

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Hrubec noted that an epidemiological study could determine whether people who have a high rate of exposure, such as healthcare workers or restaurant servers, have a more difficult time becoming pregnant or have a greater likelihood of having children with neural tube birth defects, but no such study has been conducted to date.

A National Cancer Institute long - termstudy, involving25, 619 industrial workers in 10 factories that produced or used formaldehyde, found an increased risk of death due to leukemia, particularly myeloid leukemia, and higher rates of nasal - pharynx cancer.Further examination of the same workers, with ten more years of data, continued to show a possible link to leukemia, as well as lymphoma and multiple myeloma, amongthosewiththe highest exposures.

Funeral workers who had performed the most embalming and those with the highest estimated formaldehyde exposure had the greatest risk of myeloid leukemia, according to a National Institutes of Health study published in 2009.

However, the high proportion of health workers who didn't get tested when falling ill in West Africa, coupled with returnees» potential exposure to Ebola, are a concern.

Sewer workers and people who work with animals or on farms are at higher risk for exposure.

With one project which limited pesticides on Pakistan cotton farms, 12 % of trained farmers escaped poverty with higher crop profitability while reducing exposure to pesticides that led to a 50 % drop in cases of acute poisoning among field workWith one project which limited pesticides on Pakistan cotton farms, 12 % of trained farmers escaped poverty with higher crop profitability while reducing exposure to pesticides that led to a 50 % drop in cases of acute poisoning among field workwith higher crop profitability while reducing exposure to pesticides that led to a 50 % drop in cases of acute poisoning among field workers.

People with high exposure — including miners, smelter workers and some construction and textile workers — had up to double to triple the risk.

Workers at industrial sites engaged in chemical manufacturing, chemical refining and petrochemical industries may have been exposed to dangerous amounts of asbestos (see our list of jobs with highest risk of asbestos exposure).

Because much of the work involved high temperatures, ship yard workers and those who worked in oil refineries struggle with asbestos exposure and mesothelioma risk.