Englund A
Department of Medical and Social Affairs, Solna, Sweden.
Med Lav. 1995 Sep-Oct;86(5):435-9.
Asbestos exposure in Sweden rapidly grew in the '50s and '60s, and then began to drop at the beginning of the '70s. The number of pleural mesotheliomas due to this exposure increased to some 80 a year during the second half of the '80s, and is rapidly increasing. The jobs with the highest risk are the wood and pulp industry, plumbing, shipbuilding, and, most of all, railroad manufacturing and sugar refineries. Data dealing with peritoneal mesotheliomas are more uncertain, and possibly misleading. As far as lung cancer incidence is concerned, it remains high in plumbers and insulators, while it declined to the expected levels in the other categories of exposed workers.
20世纪50年代和60年代，瑞典的石棉暴露情况迅速增加，然后在70年代初开始下降。由于这种暴露导致的胸膜间皮瘤数量在80年代后半期增加到每年约80例，并且还在迅速增加。风险最高的工作领域是木材和纸浆行业、管道工程、造船业，尤其是铁路制造业和制糖厂。关于腹膜间皮瘤的数据更不确定，可能会产生误导。就肺癌发病率而言，水管工和绝缘材料工人的肺癌发病率仍然很高，而其他类别的暴露工人的肺癌发病率已降至预期水平。
