Socio-Demographic Profiling Of Organophosphorus Pesticides Poisoning Reported To National Poison Centre Of Malaysia Between Year 2006 To 2015
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Date
2017-08
Authors
Abdullah, Zuraini
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Universiti Sains Malaysia
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Toxicity of organophosphorus compound pesticides towards human health were widely researched by scientists and remain continuous. Organophosphorus pesticides pose both acute and chronic effects to environment and human, gave significant contribution to world suicide especially in low- to middle-income agricultural countries. This study was structured to get the demographic pattern of Organophosphorus compound pesticides poisoning cases which were captured inside the National Poison Centre registry database in Malaysia for 10 years period, starting from 1st of January 2006 till 31st of December 2015. Data analysis was done using the Statistical Program for the Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22. Organophosphorus pesticides poisoning with total number of 4029, contributed to 28.4% of all pesticides poisoning cases registered within that timeframe. The number of cases increased more than two folds from 2006 to 2015. Glyphosate, the herbicides accounted for 58.3%, become the commonest poison involved in organophosphorus pesticides poisoning. High contribution from Perak, Selangor and Johor to organophosphorus pesticides poisoning almost parallel to the agricultural contribution by these states. Male gender contributed 66.6% of organophosphorus pesticides poisoning and the Indian ethnic represents 54.6% of organophosphorus pesticides poisoning. Majority of the organophosphorus pesticides poisoning are intentional (70.6%) and suicidal is the main reason (93.7%). Majority of poisoning occur at home (95.1%). There were significant association between gender and race with organophosphorus pesticides poisoning as well as category of poisoning.
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Toxicity of organophosphorus compound , pesticides towards human health