Mortality among 24,865 workers exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in three electrical capacitor manufacturing plants: a ten-year update.

The objective of this analysis was to evaluate mortality among a cohort of 24,865 capacitor-manufacturing workers exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) at plants in Indiana, Massachusetts, and New York and followed for mortality through 2008. Cumulative PCB exposure was estimated using plant-specific job-exposure matrices. External comparisons to US and state-specific populations used standardized mortality ratios, adjusted for gender, race, age and calendar year. Among long-term workers employed 3 months or longer, within-cohort comparisons used standardized rate ratios and multivariable Poisson regression modeling. Through 2008, more than one million person-years at risk and 8749 deaths were accrued. Among long-term employees, all-cause and all-cancer mortality were not elevated; of the a priori outcomes assessed only melanoma mortality was elevated. Mortality was elevated for some outcomes of a priori interest among subgroups of long-term workers: all cancer, intestinal cancer and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (women); melanoma (men); melanoma and brain and nervous system cancer (Indiana plant); and melanoma and multiple myeloma (New York plant). Standardized rates of stomach and uterine cancer and multiple myeloma mortality increased with estimated cumulative PCB exposure. Poisson regression modeling showed significant associations with estimated cumulative PCB exposure for prostate and stomach cancer mortality. For other outcomes of a priori interest--rectal, liver, ovarian, breast, and thyroid cancer, non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Alzheimer disease, and Parkinson disease--neither elevated mortality nor positive associations with PCB exposure were observed. Associations between estimated cumulative PCB exposure and stomach, uterine, and prostate cancer and myeloma mortality confirmed our previous positive findings.

Secure and Prepared Newsletter, December 3, 2009, Vol. 5, no. 24

A bi-weekly newsletter for those involved in the fields of homeland security and/or emergency management

Business Recovery Status Report #16: Presidential Disaster #1763, October 24, 2008

Safeguard Iowa Partnership launched a survey to the business community to capture the impact from the 2008 disasters. Five hundred eighty surveys were completed and compiled for the report submitted to the Rebuild Iowa Office Economic and Workforce Development Task Force on August 20, 2008.

Lottery Action, Vol. 15, No. 24

Iowa Lottery newsletter for lottery retailers.

Lottery Action, Vol. 16, No. 24

Iowa Lottery newsletter for lottery retailers.

[Lettre autographe signée de Giuseppina Verdi adressée à Escudier, 24 décembre 1859]

Post-scriptum de Giuseppe Verdi

[Lettre autographe signée de Giuseppe Verdi adressée à Escudier, Piacenza, 24 mars 1866]

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[Lettre autographe signée de Giuseppe Verdi adressée à Escudier, Piacenza, 24 mars 1867]

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Report on a special investigation of the Cedar Rapids Community School District for the period July 1, 2002 through August 24, 2009

Report on a special investigation of the Cedar Rapids Community School District for the period July 1, 2002 through August 24, 2009

[Lettre autographe signée de Giuseppe Verdi adressée à Escudier, Sant'Agatha, 24 juin 1873]

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