Industrial Health
Online ISSN : 1880-8026
Print ISSN : 0019-8366
ISSN-L : 0019-8366
Subjective Symptom Increase Among Dry-Cleaning Workers Exposed to Tetrachloroethylene Vapor
Shi-Xiong CAI, Mei-Yuan HUANG, Zhen CHEN, Yu-Tang LIU, Chui JIN, Takao WATANABE, Haruo NAKATAUKA, Kazunori SEIJI, Osamu INOUI, Masayuki IKEDA
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Keywords: Hematology, Liver function, Kidney function, Occupational exposure, Subjective symptoms, Tetrachloroethylene
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1991 Volume 29 Issue 3 Pages 111-121

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Abstract

Subjective symptoms, hematology, serum biochemistry and other clinical signs were investigated in 56 dry-cleaning workers exposed to tetrachloroethylene at 20 ppm (as a geometric mean of 8-hr time-weighted average), and the results were compared with the findings in 69 non-exposed controls from the same factories. There were exposure-related increases in the prevalence of subjective symptoms during the work as well as in the past 3 month period, whereas there was no significant changes in hematology. Effects of the exposure on liver and kidney functions were also negative as judged by emission enzyme activities, BUN and creatinine in the serum.

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