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Comparative Study
. 2019 Jan;61(1):1-7.
doi: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000001482.

Greater Odds for Angina in Uranium Miners Than Nonuranium Miners in New Mexico

Vanessa J M Al Rashida  1 , Xin Wang, Orrin B Myers, Tawny W Boyce, Elizabeth Kocher, Megan Moreno, Roger Karr, Nour Ass'ad, Linda S Cook, Akshay Sood
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Comparative Study

Greater Odds for Angina in Uranium Miners Than Nonuranium Miners in New Mexico

Vanessa J M Al Rashida et al. J Occup Environ Med. 2019 Jan.

Abstract

Objective: The aim of this study was to test the hypothesis that uranium miners in New Mexico (NM) have a greater prevalence of cardiovascular disease than miners who extracted the nonuranium ore.

Methods: NM-based current and former uranium miners were compared with nonuranium miners by using cross-sectional standardized questionnaire data from the Mining Dust in the United States (MiDUS) study from 1989 to 2016.

Results: Of the 7215 eligible miners, most were men (96.3%). Uranium miners (n = 3151, 43.7%) were older and diabetic, but less likely to currently smoke or use snuff (P ≤ 0.001 for all). After adjustment for covariates, uranium miners were more likely to report angina (odds ratio 1.51, 95% confidence interval 1.23 to 1.85) than nonuranium miners.

Conclusion: Our data suggest that along with screening for pulmonary diseases, uranium industry workers should be screened for cardiovascular diseases.

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Conflicts of Interest: None Declared

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