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Cancer risk among female agricultural workers: a multi-center case-control studyL Settimi
Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
Am J Ind Med 36:135-41. 1999..Cancer risk among women engaged in farming has been poorly investigated. This group of female workers is of particular interest, however, since they may experience exposure to several potential agricultural hazards...- Surveillance of toxic exposures: the pilot experience of the Poison Control Centers of Milan, Pavia and Bergamo in 2006Laura Settimi
Centro Nazionale di Epidemiologia, Sorveglianza e Promozione della Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Via Giano della Bella 34, 00162 Rome, Italy
Ann Ist Super Sanita 43:287-94. 2007..Although very limited, the available observations focused the attention on specific hazards and were able to highlight the potential of a toxic exposure surveillance system based on the information reported by the Italian PPC... - [Italian Program for Surveillance of Acute Pesticide-Related Illnesses: cases identified in 2005]L Settimi
Centro Nazionale di Epidemiologia e Promozione della Salute, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Via Giano della Bella, 00161 Roma, Italia
G Ital Med Lav Ergon 29:264-6. 2007..56), copper sulphate (n. 55), methomyl (n. = 52), metam-sodium (n. 24). Three episodes of collective environmental exposure to soil fumigants involving 23 subjects were also detected... - Prostate cancer and exposure to pesticides in agricultural settingsLaura Settimi
Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy
Int J Cancer 104:458-61. 2003..5, 95% CI = 1.4-4.2), more specifically to the often contemporary used compounds DDT (OR = 2.1, 95% CI = 1.2-3.8), and dicofol (OR = 2.8, 95% CI = 1.5-5.0), whose effects could not be well separated... - Cancer risk among male farmers: a multi-site case-control studyL Settimi
National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy
Int J Occup Med Environ Health 14:339-47. 2001..4, 95%CI:0.9-2.0), rectum (OR = 1.5, 95%CI:0.8-2.7), larynx (OR = 1.4, 95%CI:0.8-2.5), and prostate (OR = 1.4, 95%CI:1.0-2.1). The excess of prostate cancer was specifically related to application of pesticides (OR = 1.7, 95%CI:1.2-2.6)... - Mortality among workers in an Italian cigarette factoryL Settimi
Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Lab Igiene Ambientale, Roma, Italy
Occup Med (Lond) 49:361-4. 1999..1; CI = 2.2-21.0). Although based on small numbers, the excess of NHL here reported suggests that potential exposure to foliar residues of pesticides should be thoroughly considered in tobacco manufacturing... - [Testicular tumors in Italy: historical trends, geographic differences, and etiological hypotheses]Fiammetta Nori
Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo, , Roma
Epidemiol Prev 26:76-81. 2002..Moreover some studies have found an association between parental occupation and testicular cancer in the offspring. However, the aetiology of testicular cancer is still poorly understood... - [Agricultural pesticide-related poisonings in Italy: cases reported to the Poison Control Centre of Milan in 2000-2001]Franca Davanzo
Centro Antiveleni, , Milano
Epidemiol Prev 28:330-7. 2004..CONCLUSION: The data here presented provide an initial support to identify priorities for prevention in agricultural settings... - Exposure to pesticides and time to pregnancy among female greenhouse workersLaura Lauria
National Institute of Health, Viale Regina Elena 299, Rome 00161, Italy
Reprod Toxicol 22:425-30. 2006..96, 95%CI: 0.81, 1.13). A significant reduction in fecundability was observed in older women and with a daily consumption of one or more alcoholic beverages or cups of tea... - [Mortality among workers in a cigarette factory in Lucca (Tuscany)]Dino Ausilio Parducci
UO Igiene e salute nei luoghi di lavoro, USL 2, Lucca
Epidemiol Prev 29:271-7. 2005..The excess of pleural neoplasms reported in this study suggests the opportunity to evaluate the risk due to asbestos use in many manifacturing industries, especially where steam was used for extractive or warming purpose... - The use of personal protective equipment in pregnant greenhouse workersFabrizio Giannandrea
Department of Animal and Human Biology, Industrial and Environmental Hygiene Unit, University of Rome La Sapienza, P le Aldo Moro, 5, Rome, Italy
Occup Med (Lond) 58:52-7. 2008..To determine the use of personal protective equipment (PPE) among pregnant greenhouse workers in Italy and to identify risk factors related to the non-use of appropriate preventive measures... 
Spontaneous abortion and maternal work in greenhousesLaura Settimi
National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy
Am J Ind Med 51:290-5. 2008..Work in greenhouses may imply exposure of pregnant women to pesticides continuously and at elevated level...- Health risk and occupation in agricultural settings in ItalyLucia Miligi
Unit of Environmental and Occupational Epidemiology, Center for Study and Prevention of Cancer, Florence, Italy
Int J Occup Environ Health 11:96-102. 2005..Preliminary data on pesticide-related illnesses must be taken into account, and a national surveillance system should be implemented to identify areas at high risk and to promote exposure-control programs...