Journal article
Blood Concentrations of Volatile Organic Compounds among US Workers from Various Trades
Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, Vol.65(6), pp.458-466
06/2023
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002809
PMCID: PMC12687726
PMID: 36804870
Abstract
This study aimed to examine blood benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, o-xylene, and m-/p-xylene (BTEX) concentrations and their trends contrasting construction workers with workers in other occupations from 1999 to 2014 in the US.
Using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), quantile regressions were performed to investigate associations between occupation and blood BTEX concentrations.
We found that high risk and construction occupations were associated with increased blood concentrations of toluene, o-xylene, and m-/p-xylene at the 50-90th percentiles (P50-90), and ethylbenzene at P70-90. Moreover, while blood concentrations of ethylbenzene, o-xylene, and m-/p-xylene trended down among all US workers, no decreasing trend was observed for benzene and toluene among construction workers.
Future studies are warranted to address questions about specific tasks to better assess VOC exposure from various trades.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Blood Concentrations of Volatile Organic Compounds among US Workers from Various Trades
- Creators
- Kunqi Zhang - University of Maryland, College ParkWei Bao - University of IowaTuo Lan - University of IowaQingbin Cui - University of Maryland, College ParkPeter S Thorne
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of occupational and environmental medicine, Vol.65(6), pp.458-466
- DOI
- 10.1097/JOM.0000000000002809
- PMID
- 36804870
- PMCID
- PMC12687726
- NLM abbreviation
- J Occup Environ Med
- eISSN
- 1536-5948
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 02/21/2023
- Date published
- 06/2023
- Academic Unit
- Civil and Environmental Engineering; Occupational and Environmental Health
- Record Identifier
- 9984375454302771
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