Review Series: Occupational and environmental lung disease
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Occupational and Environmental Medicine 1997;54:19-26 Prevalence of occupational lung disease
Accepted 29 July 1996 Abstract Objective-To determine whether previous health experiences affect the prevalence of occupational lung disease in a semirural Botswanan community where there is a long history of labour recruitment to South African mines. Method-A cross sectional prevalence study of 304 former miners examined according to a protocol including a questionnaire, chest radiograph, spir...
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Despite federally mandated safety standards, occupational lung disease remains one of the most common work-related injuries. Inhaled dust can result in a range of tissue injury in the lung and can lead to significant respiratory insufficiency causing death. Although silicosis and coal worker's pneumoconiosis are becoming less common, hypersensitivity pneumonitis is increasingly recognized as an...
متن کاملOccupational Lung Disease
'Department of Hygimene and Epidemiology, University of Athens Medical School, Goudi, Athens 115-27, Greece; 2Department of Epidemiology and Center for Cancer Prewention, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA; 3Department of Nutrition and Biochemistry, Athens School of Public Health, Leoforos Alexandras 196, Athens 115-21, Greece; 4Medical Cent...
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عنوان ژورنال: Chronic Respiratory Disease
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1479-9731,1479-9731
DOI: 10.1177/1479972307084112