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Title: | Risk factors of mortality from all asbestos-related diseases: A competing risk analysis. |
Author: | Abós-Herràndiz, Rafael Rodríguez Blanco, Teresa García Allas, Isabel Rosell-Murphy, Magdalena Isabel Alberti-Casas, Constança Tarrés Olivella, Josep Krier Günther, Ilona Martinez Artés, Xavier Orriols Martínez, Ramon Grimau Malet, Isidre Canela i Soler, Jaume |
Keywords: | Asbest Epidemiologia Mortalitat Asbestos Epidemiology Mortality |
Issue Date: | 7-Jun-2017 |
Publisher: | Hindawi |
Abstract: | Background. The mortality from all malignant and nonmalignant asbestos-related diseases remains unknown. The authors assessed the incidence and risk factors for all asbestos-related deaths. Methods. The sample included 544 patients from an asbestos-exposed community in the area of Barcelona (Spain), between Jan 1, 1970, and Dec 31, 2006. Competing risk regression through a subdistribution hazard analysis was used to estimate risk factors for the outcomes. Results. Asbestos-related deaths were observed in 167 (30.7%) patients and 57.5% of these deaths were caused by some type of mesothelioma. The incidence rate after diagnosis was 3,600 per 100,000 person-years. In 7.5% of patients death was non-asbestos-related, while pleural and peritoneal mesothelioma were identified in 87 (16.0%) and 18 (3.3%) patients, respectively. Conclusions. Age, sex, household exposure, cumulative nonmalignant asbestos-related disease, and single malignant pathology were identified as risk factors for asbestos-related death. These findings suggest the need to develop a preventive approach to the community and to improve the clinical follow-up process of these patients. |
Note: | https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/9015914 |
It is part of: | Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2017, vol. 2017, num. 2017 |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2445/121478 |
Related resource: | https://doi.org/10.1155/2017/9015914 |
ISSN: | 1198-2241 |
Appears in Collections: | Articles publicats en revistes (Fonaments Clínics) |
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