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STUDY * USA- Diesel linked to truckers' deaths
The odds of dying from heart disease are nearly 50 percent higher for truck drivers than the general U.S. population, and diesel exhaust is a likely culprit
Sacramento,CAL,USA -The Sacramento Bee, by Chris Bowman -January 30, 2008: -- ... According to a new Harvard University study of importance to transportation-heavy California... Harvard Medical School researchers said they examined the jobs and medical histories of more than 54,000 male Teamsters union members who had worked for one of four national trucking companies from 1985 through 2000... The findings are important not only for transportation workers but also for people who commute in heavy diesel-fueled traffic or who live or work near truck terminals, ports and railroad yards, said Cynthia Garcia, a state air pollution scientist... Researchers said they were not surprised to find that the trucking industry workers had a lower overall death rate than the general population. But they were struck by the higher death rates for heart disease, particularly among truck drivers – 49 percent – and dockworkers, 32 percent. The lung cancer death rate also was elevated among drivers and dockworkers, by 10 percent... The results are consistent with numerous smaller studies of workers exposed to vehicle exhausts, including truck drivers, though the link between lung cancer and diesel exhaust is still being questioned, the study said...
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