Relationships between solar greenhouse working and selected blood biochemical indexes of elderly workers
10.13213/j.cnki.jeom.2021.21306
- VernacularTitle:日光温室作业与高龄劳动者部分血生化指标的关系
- Author:
Tenglong YAN
1
;
Siwen YANG
2
;
Yuqian WANG
3
;
Xiaojun ZHU
2
;
Xingfan ZHOU
3
;
Wenjun MA
4
;
Shichuan TANG
3
;
Jue LI
1
;
Tao LI
5
Author Information
1. Beijing Institute of Occupational Disease Prevention and Treatment, Beijing 100093, China.
2. National Center for Occupational Safety and Health, National Health Commission of the People's Republic of China, Beijing 102308, China.
3. Institute of Urban Safety and Environmental Science, Beijing Academy of Science and Technology, Beijing 100054, China.
4. School of Public Health, Peking University, Beijing 100191, China.
5. National Institute of Occupational Health and Poison Control, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing 100050, China.
- Publication Type:Specialcolumn:Solargreenhouseworkers'health
- Keywords:
solar greenhouse working;
elderly workers;
blood biochemistry;
lipid metabolism;
occupational exposure
- From:
Journal of Environmental and Occupational Medicine
2021;38(12):1312-1317
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Background The aging of the labor force has become a global trend, and various occupational activities can affect blood biochemical indexes and increase the risk of metabolic diseases. Elderly workers are the main laborers in the solar greenhouse industry, and their blood biochemical indexes need more attention. Objective The purpose of this study is to explore the alternation of selected blood biochemical indexes and provide clues for conducting management programs of metabolic diseases in the elderly solar greenhouse workers. Methods The research subjects of the greenhouse group and the non-greenhouse group were selected from a vegetable production base in Northwest China. The elderly workers were selected from a recruited subjects pool for an earlier project by means of matching and non-matching respectively. The matching conditions were gender (consistent), age (±2 years old), body mass index (BMI) (±1 kg·m−2), education level (±1 level), smoking (consistent), and drinking (consistent). Routine clinical tests were used to detect serum total cholesterol (TC), triglycerides (TG), high-density lipoprotein cholesterol (HDLC), low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDLC), fasting blood glucose (GLU), and albumin (ALB), and single-factor and multi-factor analyse were used to identify different indexes in matching and non-matching samples, respectively. The matching and the non-matching samples included 80 pairs of subjects and 327 subjects, respectively. Results In the matching sample set, the greenhouse group's HDLC [(1.61±0.34) mmol·L−1] was lower than the non-greenhouse group's [(2.09±0.37) mmol·L−1] (P<0.05), the level of TG/HDLC in the greenhouse group was (1.17±0.74), higher than that in the non-greenhouse group (0.78±0.47) (P<0.05), and the level of LDLC/HDLC in the greenhouse group was (1.87±0.36), also higher than that in the non-greenhouse group(P<0.05), while there was no statistical difference of the other indexes between the two groups (all Ps>0.05). In the non-matching sample set, the results of multiple linear regression analysis showed that solar greenhouse working correlated with decreased HDLC, and increased TG/HDLC and LDLC/HDLC among the elderly workers (all Ps<0.05). Conclusion Solar greenhouse working may correlate with variations of selected blood biochemical indexes in elderly workers, and the occupational health surveillance of elderly workers should be strengthened.
