High Risk of Pleural Mesothelioma Among Italian Railroad Carriage Repair Workers Exposed to Asbestos

Exposure to asbestos for Italian workers in a facility for the repair of railroad carriages in Bologna, Italy, was initially studied in 1980, when the Local Health Unit started a program of primary prevention on request of the unions.

At that time workers employed in jobs with high exposure to asbestos were identified. The mortality experience of these 173 subjects was investigated from Jan. 1, 1979 through December 31, 1997, and compared to that of the population of Emilia Romagna.

SMR for all causes was 69, with upper limit of the confidence interval lower than 100; this was largely due to a significant decrease of cardiovascular mortality.

Among neoplasms, there was a significant excess of pleural mesothelioma (6 observed, 0.09 expected); one more subject died from peritoneal mesothelioma and one from malignant mesothelioma of an unspecified site. About half of the subjects deceased for neoplastic disease (8/17) were affected by mesothelioma.

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