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FILE NAME Brakes BRK DATE 1985 Sept DOC BRK253 DOCUMENT DESCRIPTION Abstract from Medical Journal - Occupation and Environment - Mesothelioma Risk American Journal of EPIDEMIOLOGY | * VOLUME 122 NUMBER 3 SEPTEMBER 1985 Reviews reviews of ealth field 357 366 ORIGINAL CONTRIBUTIONS NON - CIRCULATING Lifetime Occupational Exercise and Colon Cancer John E. Vena SUNY at Buffalo School of Medicine Buffalo NY 14214 Saxon Graham Maria Zielezny Mya K. Swanson Robert E. Barnes and James Nolan Ethnic Differences in Blood Pressure and Heart Rate of Chicago School Children Sophie Levinson Kiang Liu Northwestern U. Medical School Chicago IL 60611 Jeremiah Stamler Rose Stamler Ira Whipple Doris Ausbrook and David Berkson s are 378 anyg, 386 Trace Metals and Coronary Heart Disease Risk Indicators in 152 Elderly Men The Zutphen Study D. Kromhout Institute of Social Medicine State University of Leiden 2300 RC Leiden The Netherlands A. A. E. Wibowo R. F. M. Herber L. M. Dalderup H. Heerdink C. de Lezenne Coulander and R. L. Zielhuis Familial Aggregation of Red Blood Cell Cation Transport Systems in Japanese Families Sadanobu Kagamimori Toyama Medical and Pharmaceutical U. Toyama City 930-01 Japan Yuchi Naruse Masanobu Takata Takako Fujita and Masao Watanabe 391 Breast Cancer and the Consumption of Coffee Lynn Rosenberg Drug Epidemiology Unit Brookline MA 02146 Donald R. Miller Susan P. Helmrich David W. Kaufman David Schot- tenfeld Paul D. Stolley and Samuel Shapiro 400 A Validation of Two Motion Sensors in the Prediction of Child and Adult Physical Activity Levels Robert C. Klesges Dept. of Psychology North Dakota State U. Fargo ND 58105 Lisa M. Klesges Anne M. Swenson and Alfred M. Pheley 411 Acute Infections with Hepatitis B Virus in Medical Personnel During a year Follow Brith Christenson National Bacteriological Laboratory 105 21 Stockholm Sweden wT) paperback 418 Community Exposure to Hazardous Waste Disposal Sites Assessing Reporting Bias Lewis H. Roht Sally W. Vernon U. of Texas School of Public Health Houston TX 77225 Francis W. Weir Stanley M. Pier Peggy Sullivan and Lindsay J. Reed na emiologic they order 434 Is the Relationship Between Blood Pressure and Cardiovascular Risk Dependent on Body Mass Index Francois Cambien INSERM U258 Institut Biomedical des Cordeliers 75006 should pay +, Paris France Jean M. Chretien Pierre Ducimetiere Louis Guize and Jacques L. Richard emiologic 1 hardback 10 per copy 443 452 A Control Study of Creutzfeldt Disease Dietary Risk Factors Zoreh Davanipour Neuroepidemiology Section Temple U. Philadelphia PA 19140 Milton Alter Eugene Sobel David M. Asher and D. Carleton Gajdusek Physical Fitness and Blood Pressure The Role of Age Steven F. Siconolfi Thomas M. w Checks out in U.S. g by credit 458 Lasater Sonja McKinlay Patricia Boggia and Richard A. Carleton The Memorial Hospital Pawtucket RI 02860 Lipids and Lipoproteins in a Young Adult Population The Beaver County Lipid Study Richard P. Donahue Graduate School of Public Health U. of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh PA 15261 Trevor J. Orchard Lewis H. Kuller and Allan L. Drash Continued on Cover 2 : Published by the School of Hygiene and Public Health of The Johns Hopkins University 4 4 518 1985 SOCIETY FOR EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH ABSTRACTS NOTICE Th^<metastal by copyriglhatw Tie7 U.S. Coda with a history of abnormal pap smears were excluded These findings support the possibility that term use of oral contraceptives may have an adverse effect on the cervical epithelium but emphasize the need for careful evaluation of confounding influences was not increased among the 10 subjects thought to have had exposure over 1 ppm In formaldehyde in- duces nasal cancers in humans such an effect can not be detected by these methods Optimal frequency of screening for cervical cancer data from a Toronto control study E. Clarke Dept. of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics U. of Toronto Toronto Ontario Canada M5S 1A8 T. Anderson and S. Hilditch A study of 181 cases and 905 controls conducted in Toronto Canada between 1973 and 1976 demonstrated that women who had not had a Papanicolaou smear in the last five years were at three times the risk of developing cervical cancer The present report draws on this study wherein details and cervical smears obtained from attending physicians for 156 cases and 682 controls were analyzed to assess the optimal frequency of cervical screening The time between the last normal smear and the date of diagnosis was divided into month intervals Relative protection was then calculated comparing women who had one or more normal smears with those who were never screened The results show a significant protective effect of cervical screening in women who had two or more normal smears the last one being within two years of diagnosis This trend although not statistically significant continued to four years prior to diagnosis suggesting that screening intervals should not be less than four years This study illustrates the effectiveness of the control approach in the evaluation of screening procedures Mesothelioma risk related to occupational or other asbestos exposure preliminary results from a casecontrol study R. Spirtas NCI Bethesda MD 20205 R. Keehn W. Wright A. Stark G. Beebe and E. Dickson A study has been undertaken to evaluate occupational and other asbestos exposures as to the gradient of relative risk of malignant mesothelioma It includes interviews with next of cases diagnosed during 1975 198a0nd matched controls from Los Angeles County New York State exclusive of New York City and selected Veterans Administration Hospitals Based upon histopathologic review by an international panel of expert pathologists re- sponses from next of 259 confirmed cases and matched controls have been selected for preliminary analysis Job and related activities with known or suspected asbestos exposures have the following odds ratios and 95 confidence intervals furnace or boiler installation or repair 4.5 2.5 8.2 shipbuilding ship demolition or shipyard work 4.3 2.5-7.4 insulation 3.2 2.1-5.0 elevator installation or repair 1.9 0.4-9.8 building demolition 1.4 0.73.0 plumbing or heating repair 1.3 0.9 1.p9roduction of textiles 1.3 0.4-4.9 brake lining installation or repair 1.0 0.6-1.6 production of paper products 0.8 0.3 1.9Results are reported by site pleura peritoneum cell type epithelial biphasic mesenchy- Occupation and Environment I mal and age at first exposure Chairman S. Preston Mutagenic cervical mucus in women smokers E. Formaldehyde occupations and cancers of the nasopharynx and sinonasal region G. Roush J. Walrath L. Stayner S. Kaplan and A. Blair Yale U. New Haven CT 065101 Formaldehyde vapor induces cancer of the nasal passages in laboratory animals In this study occu- pational information was obtained for 198 persons with sinonasal cancer and 173 with nasopharyngeal cancers identified as incident cases by the Connecticut Tumor Registry over 41 years among Connecticut males dying of any cause and for 605 controls sampled from Connecticut death certificates City directories and death certificates provided information on job industry employer and year of employment for exposure classification Without knowledge as to casecontrol status an industrial hygienist particularly experienced in epidemiologic studies of formaldehyde classified each study subject with respect to probability and degree of formaldehyde exposure Elevated ratios observed odds in the rubber industry printers and physicians and dentists were consistent with ran- Holly N. Petrakis N. Friend D. Sarles R. Lee and L. Flander U. of California San Francisco CA 94143 A study was conducted to determine whether any relationship existed between mutagenicity of a woman's uterine cervical mucus and her current smoking status Cervical fluids obtained from 78 premenopausal women seen between July 1983 and March 1984 at the University of California dysplasia and diethylstilbestrol clinic or in a private practice were tested for mutagenicity using the Salmonella microsomal test Fourteen of 36 current smokers 39 had positive tests as compared to five of 42 nonsmokers 12 odds ratio OR = 4.7 95 confidence interval CI 1.6 14.S2ecretions from 13 of 31 women 42 who had smoked within the previous six hours were positive on the laboratory test versus one of five women 20 among those who had smoked seven or more hours before the specimens were obtained OR = 2.9 CI from 95 0.30 27.F6luids women with dysplasia or carcinoma in situ were more likely to be mutagenic dom variation No associations for either of these two than were those from other women OR = 2.0 95 malignancies were detected in formaldehyde occupations in six other industries There was no CI 0.70 5.T9his relationship between smoking and mutagenic cervical fluids offers biochemical evidence overall association of formaldehyde occupations with either nasopharyngeal cancers odds ratio for the association between cervical cancer and cigarette smoking noted in previous epidemiologic studies OR = 1.1 95 confidence interval CI 0.7 1.o9r - with sinonasal cancer OR = 0.8 95 CI 0.5 1.N3o Associations between nine sites of cancer and nine trends in risk were observed with time and age Risk organic dusts results from a hypothesis control Richardson Institut Arm , Canada A multi was undertak occupational carried out w cases of 19 s^... years and re designed to a information tory was revi lated it into al occupational risk factors in Over 2,000 ca For each sit controls are si study This r nine sites off cases process ach lymphon nine organic cotton wool investigated esting leads " == 1.4 blado phoma OR = 2.6 stomach The Nationa the chemical 20205 P. Ha The relatio ployment in control were obtaine general popull 369 controls w ical industry interval CI were observe industry Em chemicals wa among men { duration of en for 20 or mon Mixing filter in the plasti with fivefold 41.9 Heat ber productio creased risk ( employed in 3.5 95 CI = in agricultura the pesticides 8.2 A nons ever employe cals howeven years the oda 0.33 The la studies to de pational expa