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Solvent exposure can cause neurobehavioral effect

Solvent exposure can effect human health. It can cause different effects in different part of the body. One of the most important side effects is neurobehavioral symptom including mood disorders, short memory, and tiredness. To determine the frequency of neurbehavioral effects in painters of a car producing plant in Tehran and compairing them with other workers in the same plant whom was not being exposed to such solvents. All of car painters (78 persons) as our case group and 83 non-painters as our control group were selected by simple random sampling and neurobehavioral abnormality was assessed by Q16 questionaire. Neurobehavioral disorders based on above questionnaire was observed in 46 percent of car painters vs.36 percent of non-painters (p=0.10). The significant differences were observed in perspiration without any particular reason (Q8) and feeling irritated without any particular reason (Q4). There was not a significant difference in observed frequency of neurobehavioral abnormalities in painters vs. non-painters, however both of these frequencies were higher than expected frequency reported in other reports.