Effects of occupational exposure to carbon black on peripheral white blood cell counts and lymphocyte subsets

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• 作者：Yufei Dai ; Yong Niu ; Huawei Duan ; Bryan A. Bassig ; Meng Ye ; Xiao Zhang ; Tao Meng ; Ping Bin ; Xiaowei Jia ; Meili Shen ; Rong Zhang ; Wei Hu ; Xiaofa Yang ; Roel Vermeulen ; Debra Silverman ; Nathaniel Rothman ; Qing Lan ; Shanfa Yu and Yuxin Zheng
• 刊名：Environmental and Molecular Mutagenesis
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：October 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：57
• 期：8
• 页码：615-622
• 全文大小：213K
• ISSN：1098-2280

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The International Agency for Research on Cancer has classified carbon black (CB) as a possible (Group 2B) human carcinogen. Given that most CB manufacturing processes result in the emission of various types of chemicals, it is uncertain if the adverse health effects that have been observed in CB-exposed workers are related to CB specifically or are due to other exposures. To address this issue, we conducted a cross-sectional molecular epidemiology study in China of 106 male factory workers who were occupationally exposed to pure CB and 112 unexposed male workers frequency-matched by age and smoking status from the same geographic region. Repeated personal exposure measurements were taken in workers before biological sample collection. Peripheral blood from all workers was used for the complete blood cell count and lymphocyte subsets analysis. Compared to unexposed workers, eosinophil counts in workers exposed to CB were increased by 30.8% (P = 0.07) after adjusting for potential confounders. When stratified by smoking status, statistically significant differences in eosinophils between CB exposed and unexposed workers were only present among never smokers (P = 0.040). Smoking is associated with alterations in various cell counts; however, no significant interaction between CB exposure and smoking status for any cell counts was observed. Given that inflammation, characterized in part by elevated eosinophils in peripheral blood, may be associated with increased cancer risk, our findings provide new biologic insights into the potential relationship between CB exposure and lung carcinogenesis. Environ. Mol. Mutagen. 57:589–604, 2016.