INDUSTRIAL TOXICOLOGY

SOME MORBIDITY PATTERNS AMONG THE WORKERS IN CHEMICAL INDUSTRY HAVING OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO ANION AZODYES

O.P. Yavorovsky, V.V. Derpak, T.S. Gruzeva

Aminodyes are known to be harmful occupational factors for health, causing high morbidity and poor health status among workers dealing with these substances. Morbidity patterns among those workers closely correlate with their shifts duration. The main pathology affects are diseases of digestive tract, blood and blood-forming organs, respiratory and blood circulation systems. One's overall service record at such enterprise and workers' age group are also correlated with morbidity indices. The correlation tightness between workers' life-time occupational exposure to this group of dyes and its effects on some diseases morbidity and their prevalence among different professional contingents has been defined. These data would be taken into consideration while setting up a package of preventive measures.

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