Cause-Specific Mortality Among Kelly Air Force Base Civilian Employees, 1981–2001
作者:
Diane Mundt,
Linda Dell,
Rose Luippold,
Sandra Sulsky,
Anne Skillings,
Rachel Gross,
Kenneth Cox,
Kenneth Mundt,
期刊:
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine
(OVID Available online 2002)
卷期:
Volume 44,
issue 11
页码: 989-996
ISSN:1076-2752
年代: 2002
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
In response to concerns about occupational and environmental exposures, and a perceived cluster of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in the community, the mortality experience among 31,811 civilian employees who worked for at least 1 year between 1981 and 2000 at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas was ascertained. A total of 3264 deaths occurred through October 31, 2001. Overall, significant deficits in mortality were observed for all causes of death and all cancers combined. An excess of breast cancer [standardized mortality ratio (SMR) = 216; 95% confidence interval (CI) = 128–341] among blue-collar women was identified, and remained elevated after adjusting for race and ethnicity [rate ratio (RR) = 2.83; 95% CI = 1.50–5.34]. Mortality from motor neuron disease, which includes ALS deaths, was not increased overall (SMR = 0.98; 95% CI = 0.52–1.68), and was lower among blue-collar employees and higher among white-collar employees than expected, based on small numbers. Overall, mortality patterns indicated a healthy worker population and no large increased mortality associated with employment at Kelly Air Force Base.
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