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CONTACT DERMATITIS
Volume 82, Issue 6, Pages 337-342Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cod.13488
Keywords
contact urticaria; epoxy chemicals; incidence; irritant contact dermatitis; isothiazolinones; occupational contact dermatitis; occupational skin infections; protein contact dermatitis
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Background: Skin diseases are among the most common occupational diseases, but detailed analyses on their epidemiology, diagnoses, and causes are relatively scarce. Objectives: To analyze data on skin disease in the Finnish Register of Occupational Dis-eases (FROD) for (1) different diagnoses and (2) main causes of allergic contact dermatitis (ACD). Methods: We retrieved data on recognized cases with occupational skin disease (OSD) in the FROD from a 12-year-period 2005-2016 and used national official labor force data of the year 2012. Results: We analyzed a total of 5265 cases, of which 42% had irritant contact dermatitis (ICD), 35% ACD, 11% contact urticaria/protein contact dermatitis (CU/PCD), and 9% skin infections. The incidence rate of OSD in the total labor force was 18.8 cases/100 000 person years. Skin infections concerned mainly scabies in health care personnel. Twenty-nine per cent of the ACD cases were caused by plastics/resins-related allergens, mainly epoxy chemicals. Other important causes for ACD were rubber, preservatives, metals, acrylates, and hairdressing chemicals. Cases of occupational ACD due to isothiazolinones reached a peak in 2014. Conclusion: Our analysis confirms that epoxy products are gaining importance as causes of OSD and the isothiazolinone contact allergy epidemic has started to wane.
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