{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,10,14]],"date-time":"2026-10-14T19:54:23Z","timestamp":1792007663730,"version":"4.4.0"},"reference-count":10,"publisher":"BMJ","issue":"8","content-domain":{"domain":[],"crossmark-restriction":false},"short-container-title":["Occup Environ Med"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2001,8,1]]},"abstract":"<jats:sec><jats:title>OBJECTIVES<\/jats:title><jats:p>To determine whether the risk of irritant symptoms in painters is related to their exposure to paint.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec sec-type=\"methods\"><jats:title>METHODS<\/jats:title><jats:p>The prevalences of skin, eye and nasal symptoms were compared in 260 United Kingdom and 109 Chinese dockyard painters, 539 British community controls, and 255 Chinese dockyard controls, relative to their exposure to paints.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>RESULTS<\/jats:title><jats:p>Painters showed an excess of irritant symptoms compared with controls. Adjusted relative risks (RRs) (95% confidence interval (95% CI) were: for skin irritation 1.58 (1.19 to 2.08) in British painters and 2.68 (1.73 to 4.09) in Chinese painters; for eye irritation, 1.41 (0.98 to 2.05) and 3.01 (1.90 to 4.76); and for nasal irritation, 1.53 (1.10 to 2.14) and 6.73 (3.53 to 12.82), respectively. Exposure duration-response relations were found for these symptoms; the risks decreased with time after exposure ended.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>CONCLUSIONS<\/jats:title><jats:p>Irritant symptoms occur more often in dockyard painters than in controls, and this is likely to be a response to exposure to paint.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1136\/oem.58.8.542","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2002,7,27]],"date-time":"2002-07-27T10:38:40Z","timestamp":1027766320000},"page":"542-543","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":21,"title":["Nasal, eye, and skin irritation in dockyard painters: Table 1"],"prefix":"10.1136","volume":"58","author":[{"given":"R","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"S","family":"Semple","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"F","family":"Dick","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"A","family":"Seaton","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"239","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2001,8,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"2024052310552448000_58.8.542.1","unstructured":"International Agency for Research on Cancer (1989) Some organic solvents, resin monomers and related compounds, pigments and occupational exposures in paint manufacture and painting. (IARC, Lyon, France) . (Monograph 47.)."},{"key":"2024052310552448000_58.8.542.2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"383","DOI":"10.1136\/oem.56.6.383","article-title":"Health effects of solvent exposure among dockyard painters: mortality and neuropsychological symptoms.","volume":"56","author":"Chen","year":"1999","journal-title":"Occup Environ Med"},{"key":"2024052310552448000_58.8.542.3","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"388","DOI":"10.1136\/oem.56.6.388","article-title":"Neuropsychological symptoms in Chinese male and female painters: an epidemiological study in dockyard workers.","volume":"56","author":"Chen","year":"1999","journal-title":"Occup Environ Med"},{"key":"2024052310552448000_58.8.542.4","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1079","DOI":"10.1097\/00043764-199410000-00010","article-title":"A review of recent research on health effects of human occupational exposure to organic solvents.","volume":"36","author":"Baker","year":"1994","journal-title":"J Occup Med"},{"key":"2024052310552448000_58.8.542.5","first-page":"523","article-title":"Measurements of respiratory illness among construction painters.","volume":"45","author":"White","year":"1988","journal-title":"Br J Ind Med"},{"key":"2024052310552448000_58.8.542.6","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/annhyg\/30.3.307"},{"key":"2024052310552448000_58.8.542.7","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/oem.57.9.582"},{"key":"2024052310552448000_58.8.542.8","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1093\/qjmed\/93.10.655"},{"key":"2024052310552448000_58.8.542.9","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1136\/oem.51.3.181"},{"key":"2024052310552448000_58.8.542.10","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"416","DOI":"10.1080\/00039899909603373","article-title":"Sensory eye irritation in humans exposed to mixtures of volatile organic compounds.","volume":"54","author":"Hempel-Jorgensen","year":"1999","journal-title":"Arch Environ Health"}],"container-title":["Occupational and Environmental Medicine"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/syndication.highwire.org\/content\/doi\/10.1136\/oem.58.8.542","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2024,5,23]],"date-time":"2024-05-23T18:56:22Z","timestamp":1716490582000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/oem.bmj.com\/lookup\/doi\/10.1136\/oem.58.8.542"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2001,8,1]]},"references-count":10,"journal-issue":{"issue":"8","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2001,8,1]]},"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2001,8,1]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1136\/oem.58.8.542"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1136\/oem.58.8.542","relation":{},"ISSN":["1351-0711","1470-7926"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1351-0711","type":"print"},{"value":"1470-7926","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2001,8,1]]}}}