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2009-06-16 17:53:03
WELLINGTON, June 16 (Xinhua) -- Agricultural workers have the highest incidence of leukemia of all New Zealand occupation groups, probably because of their exposure to chemicals, the Massey University's public health specialists have found.
And women agriculture workers are even more at risk than men, according to the Centre for Public Health Research.
The center has just released analysis of a study started in 2003-04, when researchers interviewed 225 cancer patients aged 25-75 and 471 randomly selected participants from the general population.
They found elevated leukemia risk four or five times greater among market gardeners and nursery growers compared to the general population. Market farmers and crop growers, and field crop and vegetable growers, also all experienced varying degrees of elevated risk.
The study builds on research published by the center last year, which showed those working in plant nurseries were four times more likely to develop non-hodgkin's lymphoma, while vegetable growers and those in general horticulture production have a two-fold risk of developing that disease.
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