Nasal, eye, and skin irritation in dockyard painters

Nasal, eye, and skin irritation in dockyard painters.

OBJECTIVES To determine whether the risk of irritant symptoms in painters is related to their exposure to paint. METHODS The prevalences of skin, eye and nasal symptoms were compared in 260 United Kingdom and 109 Chinese dockyard painters, 539 British community controls, and 255 Chinese dockyard controls, relative to their exposure to paints. RESULTS Painters showed an excess of irritant sy...

Neuropsychological symptoms in Chinese male and female painters: an epidemiological study in dockyard workers.

OBJECTIVES To study the prevalences of neuropsychological symptoms in male and female dockyard painters in China and to compare them with those in British dockyard painters. METHODS All 116 painters were identified, active and retired, who had been employed in two Chinese dockyards for at least 1 year together with a matched random sample of 263 dockyard non-painters. Neuropsychological and p...

Skin irritation and corrosion.

Health eVects of solvent exposure among dockyard painters: mortality and neuropsychological symptoms

Objectives—To study mortality and prevalence of neuropsychological symptoms among a cohort of painters known to have been heavily exposed to organic solvents. Methods—A mortality study of 1292 male painters who had worked in a dockyard in Scotland for >1 year between 1950 and 1992 comprised a nested cross sectional study of 953 surviving painters from the cohort and 953 male non-painters random...

Health effects of solvent exposure among dockyard painters: mortality and neuropsychological symptoms.

OBJECTIVES To study mortality and prevalence of neuropsychological symptoms among a cohort of painters known to have been heavily exposed to organic solvents. METHODS A mortality study of 1292 male painters who had worked in a dockyard in Scotland for > or = 1 year between 1950 and 1992 comprised a nested cross sectional study of 953 surviving painters from the cohort and 953 male non-painter...