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Intensive livestock operations, health, and quality of life among eastern North Carolina residents.
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People who live near industrial swine operations have reported decreased health and quality of life. To investigate these issues, we surveyed residents of three rural communities, one in the vicinity of an approximately 6,000-head hog operation, one in the vicinity of two intensive cattle operations, and a third rural agricultural area without livestock operations that use liquid waste management systems. Trained interviewers obtained information about health symptoms and reduced quality of life during the previous 6 months. We completed 155 interviews, with a refusal rate of 14%. Community differences in the mean number of episodes were compared with adjustment for age, sex, smoking, and employment status. The average number of episodes of many symptoms was similar in the three communities; however, certain respiratory and gastrointestinal problems and mucous membrane irritation were elevated among residents in the vicinity of the hog operation. Residents in the vicinity of the hog operation reported increased occurrences of headaches, runny nose, sore throat, excessive coughing, diarrhea, and burning eyes as compared to residents of the community with no intensive livestock operations. Quality of life, as indicated by the number of times residents could not open their windows or go outside even in nice weather, was similar in the control and the community in the vicinity of the cattle operation but greatly reduced among residents near the hog operation. Respiratory and mucous membrane effects were consistent with the results of studies of occupational exposures among swine confinement-house workers and previous findings for neighbors of intensive swine operations. Long-term physical and mental health impacts could not be investigated in this study.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Wing, S., & Wolf, S.
- Affiliations
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
- ORCID
- Wing, S
- Venue
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2000-03-01
- Volume
- 108
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 233-238
- ISSN
- 0091-6765 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-9924
- PMC
- PMC1637983
- OpenAlex
- W2151911443
- Cited by
- 271
- References
- 35
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 13 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 6 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 12 · 2015: 15 · 2014: 15 · 2013: 16 · 2012: 9
- FWCI
- 6.75
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- public-domain
- creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (vor, 6512 d)
- Locations
- Environmental Health Perspectives (publishedVersion, public-domain)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (R25-ES08206-04, R25ES008206)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Indoor Air Quality and Microbial Exposure
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Physical Sciences › Chemical Engineering › Process Chemistry and Technology › Odor and Emission Control Technologies
- Keywords
- cattle farming, rural residents, health symptoms, quality of life, respiratory symptoms, gastrointestinal symptoms, mucosal irritation, animal waste management, environmental exposure, eastern North Carolina
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Air Pollution, Animals, Animal Husbandry, Black or African American, Cattle, Environmental Exposure, Environmental Health, Female, Health Status, Health Surveys, Humans, Male, Middle Aged, North Carolina, Poverty, Quality of Life, Surveys and Questionnaires, Residence Characteristics, Rural Health, Swine, Case-Control Studies
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