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Prevalence of respiratory diseases in the textile industry. Relation with dust ...
Da Costa, J T; Departamento de Clínica Geral, Faculdade de Medicina da Universidade do Porto.; Barros, H; Macedo, J A; Ribeiro, H; Mayan, O; Pinto, A SMany workers in the textile industry have respiratory symptoms that are related to their work environment. In this study we observed the dust level conditions of eleven textile industries of the North of Portugal. The dust levels determined were between 0.1 mg/m3 and 1.25 mg/m3, in many cases above the Portuguese standard levels of exposure (VLE). For these dust levels we found a prevalence of 23% of workers wi...
Respiratory symptoms in the textile industry. Their prevalence in the Vale do A...
da Costa, J T; Departamento de Clinica Geral, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto.; Barros, H; Macedo, J A; Ribeiro, H; Mayan, O; Pinto, A SSome workers in the textile industry have respiratory symptoms related to their occupation. This study is aimed at evaluating the frequency of respiratory symptoms in textile industries in the North of Portugal. We evaluated 3529 workers from 20 factories (19 deal with synthetic fibres and cotton and the other deals with sisal.) Among the workers, there were 34.5% with respiratory symptoms - 24,5% referred nasa...
Children and lead exposure. Preliminary study.
Mayan, O; Departamento de Saúde Ambiental e Toxicologia, Instituto Nacional de Saúde Dr. Ricardo Jorge, Hospital de Crianças Maria Pia.; Marques, LLead poisoning is one of the most common and preventable childhood illness. The authors believe that the present study is the first evaluation of this problem in Portugal. Objectives: a) to characterize blood lead levels in children aged 1 to 6 years living in the Oporto area; b) to identify risk groups and develop screening strategies. Material and methods: The authors studied an opportunistic sample of childr...
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