Journal article
Health effects of manganese exposures for welders in Qingdao City, China
International journal of occupational medicine and environmental health, v 30(2), pp 241-247
30 Mar 2017
PMID: 28366954
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Abstract
To document if manganese from welding causes health effects including neurological symptoms associated with manganese exposure.
An anonymous questionnaire survey for a total of 505 welders at 3 welding facilities in Qingdao City, China was administered and analyzed.
Numerous symptoms were reported by the welders including difficulty with eyes for 43% of them, sore throat for 30% of them, and tremors were reported by over 18% of them. Tremors were associated with longer periods of work as a welder and correlated with the relative cleanliness at the 3 different facilities. Tremors did not correlate with smoking.
Manganese-exposed welders reported a variety of symptoms related to work and showed neurological disturbances that correlated with amount of exposure. Int J Occup Med Environ Health 2017;30(2):241-247.
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- Title
- Health effects of manganese exposures for welders in Qingdao City, China
- Creators
- Huaqiang Zhang - Qingdao Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Qingdao, China (Department of Occupational Health). zhanghq@yeah.neyChunsheng Xu - Qingdao Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Qingdao, China (Department of Occupational Health)Honglin Wang - Qingdao Municipal Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Qingdao, China (Department of Occupational Health)Arthur L Frank - Drexel University School of Public Health, Philadelphia, USA (Department of Environmental and Occupational Health). alf26@drexel.edu
- Publication Details
- International journal of occupational medicine and environmental health, v 30(2), pp 241-247
- Publisher
- Poland
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Environmental and Occupational Health
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000399184200006
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85018980072
- Other Identifier
- 991014878440704721
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