A2161 Women workers and exposure to mercury from a stomatology clinic. Havana City, 2011

Tuesday, March 20, 2012: 17:00
Coba (Cancun Center)
Miriam Martínez Valladares, Epidemiology, Instituto Nacional De Salud De Los Trabajadores (INSAT), Ciudad Habana, Cuba
Mario Jova-rodríguez, Gineco Obstetricia, Hospital Docente Clínico Quirúrgico Julio Trigo., Ciudad Habana, Cuba
Waldo Diaz-piñeira, Epidemiología, INSAT, Ciudad Habana, Cuba
Heliodora Díaz-padrón, Riesgos Químicos, INSAT, Ciudad Habana, Cuba
Ma. Esther Linares-Fernández, Direccion, Instituto Nacional De Salud De Los Trabajadores (INSAT)., Ciudad Habana, Cuba
Introduction
The amalgam is dental full material of more common use. The exposure of mercury and acrylics compounds way be important for inhalation of mercury vapours, besides it had been appointed that the direct contact with the amalgam can through the intact skim as an additional enter. Our objective is to evaluate grade of affectation to the health of these workers, and their incident in the laboral stability.

Methods
A study observational descriptive of transversal court was realized to 891 women exposure to mercury vapours of 73 stomatology clinic from Havana City. Individual interview was applied which get all variables indicate for this type of study and the work expedient in order to get the morbidity presented for these workers. The social demographic variables were age; scholar; time exposure between others. As life style were chosen risk factors as tobacco and alcohol consumption. Record of medical certifies was gotten for obtaining the work morbidity with temporal disability, the index of Frequency and Lost Days were calculated

Results
According to above symptoms, the most pointed out before and alter exposure was nervous system with exposure time of exposure more than 5 year and the age groups was between 20 to 49 years old. The spontaneous abortion, offspring with complications, died human being and malformations were events more presented in these women with had more than 6 years of exposure. to chemical toxic. The indexes of morbidity, frequency and lost days took values such as 51.4, 101.7 y 2412.5 respectively.

Discussion
We found difference between the mentioned symptom before and alter the exposure. There is direct proportion with the exposure time. We have observed that indexes more frequently appearance in the genitourinary apparatus.