Workers exposed to low levels of benzene present in urban air: Assessment of peripheral blood count variations

Chemosphere

Volumn 152, Issue , 2016, Pages 392-398

  Casale, Teodorico ^a   Sacco, Carmina ^a   Ricci, Serafino ^a   Loreti, Beatrice ^a   Pacchiarotti, Alessandro ^a   Cupelli, Vincenzo ^b   Arcangeli, Giulio ^b   Mucci, Nicola ^b,c   Antuono, Vittorio ^a   De Marco, Federica ^a   Tomei, Gianfranco ^a   Tomei, Francesco ^a   Rosati, Maria Valeria ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Airborne benzene; Blood benzene; Lymphocytes; Neutrophils; Urban pollution; White blood cells

Indexed keywords

BENZENE; CORRELATION METHODS; CYTOLOGY; LINEAR REGRESSION; LYMPHOCYTES; POLLUTION;

INVERSE CORRELATION; KRUSKAL-WALLIS TESTS; MANN-WHITNEY U TEST; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; NEUTROPHILS; PEARSON CORRELATION; URBAN POLLUTIONS; WHITE BLOOD CELLS;

BLOOD;

BENZENE; AIR POLLUTANT;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BENZENE; BLOOD; CELLS AND CELL COMPONENTS; CORRELATION; IMMUNE RESPONSE; JOB SEARCH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SMOKING; URBAN POLLUTION;

ADULT; AIR; AIR SAMPLING; ARTICLE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; BLOOD LEVEL; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTE; MALE; MOTORCYCLIST; NEUTROPHIL; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLICE; SEX; SMOKING HABIT; URBAN AREA; WORK; WORKER; AIR POLLUTANT; ANALYSIS; BLOOD; CITY; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBAN HEALTH;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS; BENZENE; BLOOD CELL COUNT; CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLICE; SMOKING; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 84962129765     PISSN: 00456535     EISSN: 18791298     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chemosphere.2016.01.096     Document Type: Article

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