An international peer-reviewed journal in all aspects of occupational & environmental medicine

Occup Environ Med

2002;59:434-441 doi:10.1136/oem.59.7.434

A clinical neurological, neurophysiological, and neuropsychological study of sheep farmers and dippers exposed to organophosphate pesticides

Table 6

Estimation of incidence of neuropathy in the farmer population studied in second phase

Subject group	n	Incidence of neuropathy in phase 3	Estimated number with neuropathy in phase 2
Incidence of neuropathy in general population is 0.2%–0.5%.
No neuropathy	125	1/15	8
Cold QST abnormal only	247	1/15	16
Possible neuropathy	269	10/34	79
Probable or definite neuropathy	44	12/23	23
Total	685	–	126 (18%)