Occupational differences in personal care product use and urinary concentration of endocrine disrupting chemicals by gender
- Authors
- Kim, Saerom; Min, Hye Sook; Lee, Won Jin; Choe, Seung-Ah
- Issue Date
- Mar-2023
- Publisher
- Nature Publishing Group
- Keywords
- Chemicals in products; Endocrine disruptors; Vulnerable occupations
- Citation
- Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology, v.33, no.2, pp 312 - 318
- Pages
- 7
- Indexed
- SCIE
SCOPUS
- Journal Title
- Journal of Exposure Science and Environmental Epidemiology
- Volume
- 33
- Number
- 2
- Start Page
- 312
- End Page
- 318
- URI
- https://scholarworks.korea.ac.kr/kumedicine/handle/2021.sw.kumedicine/62833
- DOI
- 10.1038/s41370-022-00436-7
- ISSN
- 1559-0631
1559-064X
- Abstract
- Background: In most societies, women and men systematically differ in consumption of cosmetics and household products, which are interlinked with gendered norms and occupational segregation. We investigated the differences in personal care product (PCP) use and exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) based on occupation and gender. Methods: We utilized data from the first to third Korean National Environmental Health Survey analyzing 9218 participants aged 20–59 years engaged in their current occupation for ≥3 months. Frequent PCP use (≥once/week) and exposure to EDCs were analyzed by gender and occupation. We used least-square geometric means (LSGMs) of urinary concentrations of the five EDCs adjusted for covariates. Results: Manual occupation was most common in men and no paid occupation was most frequent in women. In general, clerical, service, and sales workers showed the highest prevalence of frequent use of hair and body products. Women used body and makeup products more frequently than men. For all five EDCs, similarly, women showed higher urinary levels in all occupation groups. When stratified by gender, the differences in urinary concentration of EDCs across occupation groups were not observed in men. Among women, clerical, service, and sales workers showed higher bisphenol A (BPA) and mono-n-butyl phthalate (MnBP) levels than manual workers. Conclusions: Differentials in exposure to EDCs by occupation groups were not evident for men. Given the higher urinary concentration of EDCs in women compared to men, interventions to reduce the exposure to EDCs would need to focus on women, especially in clerical, service, and sales occupations. © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature America, Inc.
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