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Earlier research showed that Deepwater Horizon oil spill cleanup workers experienced mental health problems such as post-traumatic stress disorder and depression; decreased lung function; heart disease; and a range of symptoms consistent with neurological and respiratory disease effects.
7 Απρ 2011 · An understanding of the health consequences of the Gulf oil spill for workers and community members is built on studies of previous disasters — most notably, in the United States, the...
In this large study of the DWH oil spill USCG responders, self-reported spill clean-up exposures were associated with acute and longer-term cardiovascular symptoms/conditions.
Higher exposures to volatile components of crude oil were associated with modest increases in risk of CHD among oil spill workers, although we did not observe exposure-response trends. https://doi.org/10.1289/EHP11859.
Results: Living in proximity to the oil spill (vs. living further away) was associated with heart disease, with [HR (95%CI) = 1.30 (1.01-1.67)] and without [1.29 (1.00-1.65)] censoring weights.
25 Αυγ 2018 · Exertion, heat exposure, psychosocial stress, and chemical exposures associated with the oil spill may have impacted the cardiovascular health of clean-up workers, in addition to the socioeconomic impacts of the oil spill on residents of communities affected by the spill [ 4 – 6 ].
26 Απρ 2018 · Previous studies have shown that oil spill exposure can affect cardiac function in birds and fish (33, 34). Therefore, we evaluated the cardiac function in the oil spill cleanup workers. We found several types of abnormal cardiac functions in those workers involved in the oil spill cleanup operations.
