Abstracts from the Literature, Litigation Watch: Welding Fumes, October 2005

JOURNAL: Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine. 47(9):916-932, September 2005. AUTHORS: John J. Graff, PhD; Nalini Sathiakumar, MD, DrPH; Maurizio Macaluso, MD, DrPH; George Maldonado, PhD; Robert Matthews, BS; Elizabeth Delzell, SD OBJECTIVE: This study evaluated the association between exposure to several chemicals and mortality from lymphohematopoietic cancer among 16,579 synthetic rubber industry workers who were followed up from 1943 to 1998. METHODS: Poisson regression analyses examined LHC rates in relation to butadiene, styrene, and DMDTC exposure. Models provided maximum …