The Nordic Expert Group for Criteria Documentation of Health Risks from Chemicals. 153. Occupational chemical exposures and cardiovascular disease

Abstract

The main task of the Nordic Expert Groupfor Criteria Documentation of Health Risks from Chemicals (NEG) is to produce criteria documents to be used by the regulatory authoritiesasthescientific basis for setting occupational exposure limits for chemical substances. For each document, NEG appoints one or several authors. An evaluation is made of all relevant published, peer-reviewed original literaturefound. Whereas NEG adopts the document by consensus procedures,therebygrantingthequalityandconclusions, theauthorsareresponsible for the factual content of the document.The evaluation of the literature and the drafting of this document on Occupational chemical exposures and cardiovascular diseasewere done by Dr Bengt Sjögren, Dr Carolina Bigert and Prof. Per Gustavsson at the Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden. The draft versions were discussed within NEG and the final version was adopted at the NEG meeting on 9 May 2019. Editorial work and technical editing were performed by the NEG secretariat.