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Guarino FM, Di Nocera F, Galiero G, Iaccarino D, Giglio S, Madeo E, Pollaro F, Mezzasalma M, Iavarone I, Odierna G, Petraccioli A, Maio N, Lockyer CH. Age estimation and growth of striped dolphins Stenella coeruleoalba stranded along the coasts of south-western Italy. The European Zoological Journal 2021. [DOI: 10.1080/24750263.2021.1892218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022] Open
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- F. M. Guarino
- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Sanità Animale, Istituto Zooprofilattico del Mezzogiorno, Portici (Naples), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Sanità Animale, Istituto Zooprofilattico del Mezzogiorno, Portici (Naples), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Sanità Animale, Istituto Zooprofilattico del Mezzogiorno, Portici (Naples), Italy
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- Marine Animal Rescue Effort (MARE) Association, Montepaone (Cosenza), Italy
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- Marine Animal Rescue Effort (MARE) Association, Montepaone (Cosenza), Italy
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- Centro Studi Ecosistemi Marini Mediterranei, Pioppi (Pollica, Salerno), Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
- CIBIO, Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, InBIO, Universidade do Porto, Vairaõ, Portugal
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Biologia, Università Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
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Barbieri PG, Mirabelli D, Madeo E, Somigliana A. [Asbestos exposure and related diseases among friction products workers (1971-2016)]. G Ital Med Lav Ergon 2020; 42:145-152. [PMID: 33119974] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2020] [Accepted: 09/30/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Worldwide studies have been published on the mortality of workers employed in asbestos-based materials for the production of clutches and brakes. However no one of these studies is related to Italian cases. Furthermore, not even surveys have been conducted in Italy to characterize the correlation between asbestos exposures and the possible occurring of asbestos-related disease. Our objectives are the following: i) to assess and quantify the asbestos exposure cases, ii) to describe the nature and the frequency of asbestos-related diseases among blue collar employees of an important factory producing brakes and clutches with chrysotile asbestos content from 1971 to 1993 and iii) to provide preliminary data on cumulative asbestos exposure estimated using lung fibre burden analysis. Critical appraisal of airborne asbestos fibre measurements and identification of cases of asbestos-related diseases between the blue collar employees, either notified to the local health authority or recovered from the Italian national Mesothelioma registry was investigated. Lung fibre burden analysis using the lung tissue samples from two deceased blue collar employees was also performed. Airborne asbestos fibre measurements (carried out in 1982) suggested asbestos fibres average concentrations of about 0.3 f/ml, while all 1992 measurements showed results below 0.1 f/ml. Furthermore, since 1988, we identified four cases of pleural plaques, three cases of asbestosis and seven cases of lung cancer. No case of malignant mesothelioma was found. In both lung cancer cases, analysed to measure the lung fibre burden, commercial amphiboles were absent or in limited concentration but chrysotile and, especially, tremolite asbestos were present in noticeable amount. In conclusion, since 1971 and up to early 1980s, exposure to chrysotile asbestos and talc, likely contaminated by tremolite, had been significant and comparable to levels causing asbestosis long-term risk. No case of malignant mesothelioma was found, that is consistent with the absence of amphiboles and with the lower risk of mesothelioma associated with the chrysotile asbestos. However a subset of the blue collar employees, the ones employed later on, could still have not reached the full risk condition, and so being still at risk of developing malignant mesothelioma. In the two lung cancer cases studied, the lung fibre burden was essentially made of chrysotile and tremolite. Lastly, lung cancer occurrence in the population of blue collar employees has been likely underestimated and the correct determination of lung cancer risk should be done through the mortality analysis of this population.
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- Pietro Gino Barbieri
- Già Servizio Prevenzione e Sicurezza Ambienti di Lavoro e Registro Mesoteliomi ASL Brescia
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- Epidemiologia dei tumori, CPO-Piemonte e Università di Torino
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- U.O.C. Medicina del Lavoro Igiene Tossicologia e Prevenzione Occupazionale ASST Spedali Civili di Brescia e Università degli Studi di Brescia
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- U.O. Aria, Centro di Microscopia Elettronica, ARPA Lombardia, Dipartimento di Milano
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Catalani S, Donato F, Madeo E, Apostoli P, De Palma G, Pira E, Mundt KA, Boffetta P. Occupational exposure to formaldehyde and risk of non hodgkin lymphoma: a meta-analysis. BMC Cancer 2019; 19:1245. [PMID: 31870335 PMCID: PMC6929467 DOI: 10.1186/s12885-019-6445-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2019] [Accepted: 12/09/2019] [Indexed: 12/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Formaldehyde, a widely used chemical, is considered a human carcinogen. We report the results of a meta-analyses of studies on the relationship between occupational exposure to formaldehyde and risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). METHODS We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis according to international guidelines and we identified 12 reports of occupational populations exposed to formaldehyde. We evaluated inter-study heterogeneity and we applied a random effects model. We conducted a cumulative meta-analysis and a meta-analysis according to estimated average exposure of each study population. RESULTS The meta-analysis resulted in a summary relative risk (RR) for NHL of 0.93 (95% confidence interval 0.83-1.04). The cumulative meta-analysis suggests that higher RRs were detected in studies published before 1986, while studies available after 1986 did not show an association. No differences were found between different levels of occupational exposure. Conclusions Notwithstanding some limitations, the results of this meta-analysis do not support the hypothesis of an association between occupational exposure to formaldehyde and risk of NHL.
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- Simona Catalani
- Department of Medicine and Surgery Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health University of Brescia, 25133, Brescia, Italy.
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- Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Department of Medicine and Surgery Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health University of Brescia, 25133, Brescia, Italy
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- Department of Medicine and Surgery Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health University of Brescia, 25133, Brescia, Italy
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- Department of Medicine and Surgery Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health University of Brescia, 25133, Brescia, Italy
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- Department of Public Health and Pediatric Sciences, University of Turin, Turin, Italy
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- Tisch Cancer Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.,Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Bologna, Bologna, Italy
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Paganelli M, Madeo E, Nabeel I, Pilia I, Lecca LI, Pili S, Fostinelli J. Education and Training in Global Occupational Health and Safety: A Perspective on New Pathways to Sustainable Development. Ann Glob Health 2018; 84:538-540. [PMID: 30835376 PMCID: PMC6748220 DOI: 10.29024/aogh.2309] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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The institution of specific Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) training programs open to international trainees from developing countries in some European, American and Asian universities is now a well-established reality. Courses and seminars that focus particularly on this subject, widely varying in approach and duration, have been held for years at these universities; these academic institutions have combined their potential to attract students from developing countries with the scheduling of interesting lectures and training activities, depending on the availability of funds sufficient to cover travel and lodging costs. Interdisciplinarity is the key to the entire program and is its main strength, as the trainees have the opportunity to condense the technical notions and methodological aspects of different disciplines (occupational health, industrial hygiene, safety management, ergonomics) in one course. We firmly believe that these programs are a precious instrument for the training of occupational health professionals from low-income countries, as they are able to address their choices correctly, hopefully achieving the goal of reducing the human costs of development.
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Madeo E, Baiocchi E, Cirulli M, Saracini F. [Congenital diaphragmatic hernia with delayed onset. Description of a case]. Minerva Pediatr 1983; 35:1009-12. [PMID: 6669151] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023]
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Madeo E, Signorini E, Lupattelli L, Castellucci G, Bragetti P. [Artero-arterial angiomatosis of the base of the skull]. Minerva Pediatr 1979; 31:979-82. [PMID: 470875] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Tangheroni W, Brunelli B, Madeo E, Trabalza N, Tarani E. [Sporadic lethal congenital neutropenia. Description of a case (1st Italian case reported)]. Minerva Pediatr 1975; 27:1300-10. [PMID: 1143217] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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