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Occupational Medicine 1984;34:86-89
© 1984 Society of Occupational Medicine

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A Health Survey of Car Painters of Different Ethnic Origin and the Importance of Racial Factors

D. S. CHATTERJEE

Ford Motor Company

A survey comprising epidemiological study, lung function tests, haematological and biochemical investigations was conducted among the spray-painters in a car plant. A group of 162 male sprayers was compared with a control group of 159 men standardized for age and other background variables. The results showed that the subjective symptoms of headache, unusual fatigue, skin and eye irritation were more common among the sprayers than the controls. Similarly, of the haematological and biochemical changes, the sprayers had significantly lower counts of WBC, neutrophils and monocytes and higher level of urinary excretion of hippuric acid than the controls. However, a further analysis of the results showed that sprayer/non-sprayer comparison for a particular parameter can have widely differing significances depending on the race involved.

Requests for reprints should be addressed to: D. S. Chatterjee, Ford Motor Company Limited, Dagenham, Essex


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