PMID- 37571934
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20230814
LR  - 20230815
IS  - 2228-7809 (Electronic)
IS  - 2228-7795 (Print)
IS  - 2228-7795 (Linking)
VI  - 22
IP  - 4
DP  - 2022 Dec
TI  - Lung Cancer and Pleural Mesothelioma Risk Assessment for the General Population 
      Exposed to Asbestos in Different Regions of Tehran, Iran.
PG  - e00563
LID - 10.34172/jrhs.2022.98 [doi]
LID - e00563
AB  - BACKGROUND: Asbestos is a natural fiber leading to health risks like chronic lung 
      diseases. The current study aimed to estimate pleural mesothelioma and lung 
      cancer risk for population exposure to asbestos in Tehran, Iran. STUDY DESIGN: A 
      cross-sectional study. METHODS: According to the annual report of Air Quality 
      Control Company (AQCC), from 2011-2020, carcinogenic risk and mesothelioma were 
      assessed based on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) method using the 
      Monte Carlo simulation (MCS). The relative risk (RR) of mortality cancer was 
      calculated based on Camus and colleagues' model. Moreover, mesothelioma risk was 
      estimated by Bourgault and colleagues' model. RESULTS: The mean concentration and 
      health risk of asbestos in ambient air generally reduced from 2011 to 2020. The 
      highest mortality risk for lung cancer was 8.4 per 100000 persons in 2011 and 
      reduced to 1.8 in 2017. For mesothelioma, the corresponding values were 8.96 per 
      100000 persons in 2011 and reduced to 1.92 in 2017. CONCLUSION: The findings of 
      this study could be helpful to health policymakers in the management of asbestos 
      risk.
CI  - (c) 2022 The Author(s); Published by Hamadan University of Medical Sciences. This 
      is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons 
      Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits 
      unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the 
      original work is properly cited.
FAU - Nasirzadeh, Nafiseh
AU  - Nasirzadeh N
AD  - Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran 
      University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
FAU - Soltanpour, Zahra
AU  - Soltanpour Z
AD  - Department of Occupational Health Engineering, Faculty of Health, Tabriz 
      University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
FAU - Mohammadian, Yousef
AU  - Mohammadian Y
AD  - Department of Occupational Health Engineering, Faculty of Health, Tabriz 
      University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
FAU - Pourhasan, Bahman
AU  - Pourhasan B
AD  - Department of Occupational Health Engineering, School of Public Health, Tehran 
      University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Iran
TA  - J Res Health Sci
JT  - Journal of research in health sciences
JID - 101480094
RN  - 1332-21-4 (Asbestos)
SB  - IM
MH  - Humans
MH  - Iran/epidemiology
MH  - Cross-Sectional Studies
MH  - *Mesothelioma/epidemiology/etiology
MH  - *Asbestos/toxicity
MH  - *Lung Neoplasms/epidemiology/etiology
MH  - *Pleural Neoplasms/epidemiology/etiology
MH  - Risk Assessment
MH  - *Occupational Exposure/adverse effects/analysis
PMC - PMC10422159
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Asbestos
OT  - Lung
OT  - Mesothelioma
OT  - Neoplasms
OT  - Quantitative health risk assessment
COIS- The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2023/08/12 10:48
MHDA- 2023/08/14 06:41
PMCR- 2022/12/29
CRDT- 2023/08/12 04:41
PHST- 2022/09/13 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2022/12/28 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/08/14 06:41 [medline]
PHST- 2023/08/12 10:48 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/08/12 04:41 [entrez]
PHST- 2022/12/29 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - e00563 [pii]
AID - 10.34172/jrhs.2022.98 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Res Health Sci. 2022 Dec;22(4):e00563. doi: 10.34172/jrhs.2022.98.