@article{ref1,
title="Retrospective cohort mortality study of workers engaged in motion picture film processing",
journal="Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine",
year="2005",
author="Fryzek, Jon P. and Chadda, Bandana K. and Cohen, Sarah S. and Marano, Donald and White, Kenneth and Steinwandel, Mark and McLaughlin, Joseph K.",
volume="47",
number="3",
pages="278-286",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: To assess potential health risks associated with work in a large motion picture film-processing facility. METHODS: A retrospective cohort mortality study was conducted during 1960-2000 among 2646 film workers. Job family categories, created from detailed employee work history information, were used to evaluate chemical exposure patterns. RESULTS: Overall mortality was as expected (standardized mortality ratio [SMR] = 1.1; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.0-1.2). Statistically significant associations were found for suicides (SMR = 2.0; 95% CI = 1.2-3.0) among the hourly workers and AIDS (SMR = 5.3; 95% CI = 1.7-12.3) among the administrative workers. Film developers had increases of respiratory cancer (SMR = 1.9; 95% CI = 1.1-3.0) and suicides (SMR = 2.4; 95% CI = 1.0-4.7), whereas film assemblers had an increase in suicides (SMR = 2.4; 95% CI = 1.2-4.4) only. CONCLUSIONS: Excess deaths resulting from suicides and AIDS among the workforce suggest that nonoccupational influences may be involved in the mortality of this cohort and warrant further investigations.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1076-2752",
doi="10.1097/01.jom.0000155712.22617.42",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/01.jom.0000155712.22617.42"
}