Corrado Magnani, Stefano Silvestri, Alessia Angelini, Alessandra Ranucci, Danila Azzolina, Tiziana Cena, Elisabetta Chellini, Enzo Merler, Venere Pavone, Lucia Miligi, Giuseppe Gorini, Vittoria Bressan, Paolo Girardi, Lisa Bauleo, Elisa Romeo, Ferdinando Luberto, Orietta Sala, Corrado Scarnato, Simona Menegozzo, Enrico Oddone, Sara Tunesi, Patrizia Perticaroli, Aldo Pettinari, Francesco Cuccaro, Stefano Mattioli, Antonio Baldassarre, Francesco Barone-Adesi, Marina Musti, Dario Mirabelli, Roberta Pirastu, Alessandro Marinaccio, Stefania Massari, Daniela Ferrante
OBJECTIVE: Italy has been a large user of asbestos and asbestos containing materials until the 1992 ban. We present a pooled cohort study on long-term mortality in exposed workers. METHODS: Pool of 43 Italian asbestos cohorts (asbestos cement, rolling stock, shipbuilding, glasswork, harbors, insulation and other industries). SMRs were computed by industrial sector for the 1970-2010 period, for the major causes, using reference rates by age, sex, region and calendar period...
July 2020: Annali Dell'Istituto Superiore di Sanità