Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Unknown status
Study Type: Observational
Official Title: DNA-damage Pathways in Workers Exposed to Silica (Caesar Stone)
Brief Summary:
Silicosis is well-known occupational disease caused by free crystalline silica (silicon dioxide) and is marked by inflammation and pulmonary fibrosis. There are cumulative evidences that exposure to Caesar stone (quartz surface products that manufactured from up to 93% quartz, polymer resins and pigments) is particularly dangerous to exposed workers.
Goals: To examine correlation between disease and exposure to Caesar stone and genetic differences regarding genes involved in oxidative stress to understand Genetic susceptibility