Pulmonary function of Paint Industry workers from West Bengal, India
Paint industry workers are usually exposed to many solvents (toluene, acetone, butanol, xylene, benzene, trichloro ethylene). We investigated whether chronic exposure to solvents had any adverse effect on respiratory system. This cross-sectional study involving 149 paint industry workers selected fr...
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Published in | Progress in health sciences Vol. 3; no. 2; p. 110 |
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Main Authors | , |
Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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Bialystok
Medical University of Bialystok
01.12.2013
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Summary: | Paint industry workers are usually exposed to many solvents (toluene, acetone, butanol, xylene, benzene, trichloro ethylene). We investigated whether chronic exposure to solvents had any adverse effect on respiratory system. This cross-sectional study involving 149 paint industry workers selected from paint industries of West Bengal, India and 141 control group individuals was undertaken. 77.68% higher age group workers and 83.78% in lower age group workers of paint industry have restrictive ventilatory impairment. Again, prevalence of restrictive ventilatory impairment is recorded as 76.9% in smoker and 78.4% in nonsmoker workers, but 94% restrictive impairments are observed in workers of the hazardous zone of high volatile organic compounds (VOC) concentration and 69.75% in workers of the non hazardous zone of low VOC concentration indicating the effects of dust and VOC in respiratory impairment than smoking. Significant correlation has been found between Pulmonary functions and duration of exposure to solvents and dust in older workers. |
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ISSN: | 2083-1617 2083-6260 |