Disease relevance of Agriculture

• Patient 1 was an agricultural worker, aged 63 years, whose attacks of chest pain, diagnosed as effort angina, were relieved by sublingual nitroglycerin [1].
• Some excess of non-Hodgkin lymphomas (NHL) and soft tissue sarcomas (STS) was reported in the literature among agricultural workers, mainly in relation to exposure to phenoxyacids and chlorophenols [2].
• Antibodies to Borrelia burgdorferi were searched for in the sera from two groups of hospital patients and one group of healthy agricultural workers [3].

High impact information on Agriculture

• Knowledge of metabolite dynamics is crucial to developing useful assays for monitoring atrazine exposure in agricultural workers [4].
• Some agricultural workers using glyphosate have pregnancy problems, but its mechanism of action in mammals is questioned [5].
• The hormonal disruption in agricultural workers presented here, together with results from experimental animal studies, suggests that OP exposure disrupts the hypothalamic-pituitary endocrine function and also indicates that FSH and LH are the hormones most affected [6].
• The levels of AZM in migrant farmworker homes were most associated with the distance from fields and the number of agricultural workers in the home [7].
• We have recently found in agricultural workers occupationally exposed to the fungicide mancozeb a statistically significant decrease in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF) production in leukocytes [8].

Biological context of Agriculture

• Gas chromatographic-tandem mass spectrometric analytical method for the study of inhalation, potential dermal and actual exposure of agricultural workers to the pesticide malathion [9].
• Spermatogenesis in agricultural workers exposed to dibromochloropropane (DBCP) [10].
• Biological monitoring for intact pesticides or metabolites in agricultural workers is limited to a few chemicals, notably, pentachlorophenol, methyl bromide, and chlordimeform [11].

Anatomical context of Agriculture

• The study has established the central nervous system depressant effect and proconvulsant potential of oxydemeton-methyl which is widely used by the agricultural workers in the form of field spray [12].

Associations of Agriculture with chemical compounds

• New analytical gas chromatographic-tandem mass spectrometric approaches have been developed for assessing both potential and actual exposure of agricultural workers to malathion [9].
• Determination of DDT and related compounds in blood samples from agricultural workers [13].
• Cancer mortality among agricultural workers from Serrana Region, state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [14].
• A group of 30 agricultural workers showed a mean serum bromide level of 15.33 +/- S.D. 1.90 mg/l at the end of the methyl bromide application season [15].
• Procedure for the determination of residues of (2,4-dichlorophenoxy)acetic acid in dermal exposure pads, hand rinses, urine, and perspiration from agricultural workers exposed to the herbicide [16].

Gene context of Agriculture

• Both serum cholinesterase and PON1 activities were measured spectrophotometrically from 18 male agricultural workers who were chronically exposed to azinphos methyl, chlorpyriphos, or malathion and other pesticides during cereal spraying, transportation, and storage [17].
• Comparison of food constituents in the diet of female agricultural workers in Japan with high and low concentrations of high density lipoprotein in their sera [18].
• Limb reduction defects, however, occurred more frequently among offspring of agricultural workers (5.05 per 1 000 total births versus 2.19 per 1 000 total births, rate ratio = 2.3) [19].
• A co-operative study by representatives of eight member countries of the EEC into the problem of respiratory disease among agricultural workers is reported [20].
• ALS distribution in the study area was uniform but its occurrence was significantly higher among agricultural workers (5.28/100,000) [21].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Agriculture

• Depression of sperm counts among agricultural workers exposed to dibromochloropropane and ethylene dibromide [22].

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