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F Carnevale

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A long-lasting pandemic: diseases caused by dust containing silica: Italy within the international context.

Diseases caused by dust containing silica represent an exemplary case study in the field of work-related diseases and in the history of the discovery of chronic industrial disease and its relationship to industrial society. Both dust and steam are indissolubly linked to the Industrial Revolution which everywhere was expected to replace slaves with masses of proletarians alike lesser gods. The identification of different nosological entities of dust-related diseases, the discovery that the most harmful dust particles in gold mines were invisible, insurance compensation and the development of the silicosis threshold limit value were all subjects of intense political negotiation that accompanied, with the connivance of doctors and scientists, a compromise between the health of workers and the economic health of industry. The preference for damage compensation (insurance system) over risk prevention (industrial hygienic measures) was also asserted and maintained in post-war Italy. Decline and modification of silicosis in Italy proceeded at the same rate as the introduction and subsequent application of more effective preventative legislation, especially with the protest movements of the working class at the end of the 1960s, together with the elimination of entire sectors of industrial activities, first those specialising in extraction and then the metallurgy.

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[Exertion-induced low back pain: a case-control study of health service workers in a local health unit].

Data concerning all accidents with absence from work exceeding three days were analysed in a cohort of 5000 workers (all employees of a Local Health Unit). A total of 1062 accidents were recorded in the file from 1987 to 1989, 118 coded as "low-back injury". A case-control study design was used to detect the main causes of these accidents, using accidents coded as other than low-back injury as controls. The odds ratios and related confidence limits were calculated in order to assess the degree of association, taking account of potentially confounding factors. A significant relationship was observed between hospital wards and other health service departments rated as "high exposure" and low-back injury (OR high exposure versus low exposure = 2.13; 95% C.L. 1.06-4.29). Selection bias and its influence on the results is also discussed.

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[Carcinogenic risk and epidemiology: thoughts on experience in the tanning and shoe industries].

An epidemiological method is described that was applied to the study of cancer risk in tanning and shoe industries. The limitations of the epidemiological research carried out so far are stressed and priorities are discussed. In particular, methods for the surveillance of cancer risk need to be implemented and etiological studies with adequate statistical power should be planned for the future.

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[The diffusion of information on the carcinogenicity of asbestos in the Italian scientific community before 1965].

The spreading of information on asbestos carcinogenicity within the Italian scientific community before 1965. The paper deals with the development of recognition of asbestos carcinogenicity within the Italian scientific community. This development was difficult in Italy as in other countries. Articles and other papers in handbooks and congress proceedings, by Italian authors, published in the period 1934-1965, were considered. The first cases of lung cancer in Italian workers exposed to asbestos were observed in 1955-56, the first cases of malignant mesothelioma in 1965. The cases observed were very few, but knowledge on asbestos carcinogenicity became widespread within the Italian scientific community during the fifties (from 1953 on wards) with the publication of several handbooks of occupational medicine.

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[The risk of the carpal tunnel syndrome in some work activities].

The aim of the study was to generate hypotheses on what could be the ISTAT (National Institute of Statistics) job classes with a major risk of carpal tunnel syndrome in order to plan more specific analytic epidemiology studies and apply more correct ergonomic solutions. A case-control cross-sectional survey without matching was carried out. The source of data were the computerized medical records of a large regional hospital: 833 carpal tunnel syndrome cases (mean age 48, SD 9.33) and 3222 controls (mean age 43.5, SD 13.22) hospitalized for other diseases, were selected. The odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence limits, controlled for age and gender by a logistic linear regression model, were calculated as measures of association for the comparison between non-exposed managerial/administrative staff and industrial workers. The analysis showed a statistically significant risk for some ISTAT job classes, in particular class 53 (spinners, weavers, dyers and similar jobs) (OR = 2.65; C.L. 1.52-4.62) class 54 (knitters, tailors, hatmakers, upholsterers and similar jobs) (OR = 1.69; C.L. 1.06-2.71), 55 (tanners, shoemakers, leather manufacture workers and similar jobs) (OR = 2.74; C.L. 1.66-4.53) and group 742 (Hotel and restaurant cooks) (OR = 2.99; C.L. 1.45-6.13). Job classes 45 (carpenters, welders and similar jobs). 62 (electricians, electrotechnicians, radio engineers and similar jobs), 63 (gasfitters, plumbers, heating engineers and similar jobs) and 85 (porters and other jobs involving manual handling of loads) showed ORs higher than 2 but without statistical significance. The results are valid for planning further studies, especially in the textile and shoe and leather manufacturing sectors.

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