Health status of copper refinery workers with specific reference to selenium exposure.

摘要: Copper refinery workers exposed to selenium were studied before, during, and after a shutdown period. Urine levels 83 +/- 30 mumol/mol creatinine 69 27 when measured on two occasions during exposure compared with 56 17 the had been free of for 10 wk shutdown. The reported more nose eye irritation, indigestion, stomach pain, fatigue than controls. "Garlic-like" breath odor was be personally socially offensive by many workers. Reporting symptoms, pulmonary function indices, laboratory test results did not change except hemoglobin level, which rose Hemoglobin found inversely correlated urine there positive correlation noted interactive effect arsenic hemoglobin.