Environmental styrene exposure and neurologic symptoms in U.S. Gulf coast residents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Styrene is an established neurotoxicant at occupational levels, but effects at levels relevant to the general population have not been studied. We examined the neurologic effects of environmental styrene exposure among U.S. Gulf coast residents.

Methods

We used National Air Toxics Assessment (NATA) 2011 estimates of ambient styrene concentrations to assign exposure levels for 21,962 non-diabetic Gulf state residents, and additionally measured blood styrene concentration in a subset of participants (n = 874). Neurologic symptoms, as well as detailed covariate information, were ascertained via telephone interview. We used log-binomial regression to estimate prevalence ratios (PR) and 95% confidence intervals (95% CI) for cross-sectional associations between both amb

SUBMITTER: Werder EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6712572 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature