Update in Environmental and Occupational Lung Diseases 2013

Occupational and environmental lung diseases: an overview.

Chronic respiratory diseases other than lung cancer that are of occupational or environmental origin, along with cigarette smoking, account for over 100,000 deaths per year and are among the leading causes of respiratory disability in the United States and throughout the world. Lung cancer from these same exposures may account for 40,000 additional deaths per year. In spite of cigarette smoking...

Asbestos-related Lung Diseases: A Brief Update

Health risks from asbestos exposures have been evaluated, considering past professional histories when exposures at workplaces were higher than today. A linear no-threshold (LNT) model has been applied, although its relevance is unproven. Fibers are often found in the lungs and pleura of deceased people. Fiber findings do not prove that a disease is caused by asbestos. It is reasonable to assum...

International conference on environmental and occupational lung diseases.

Poverty and lack of development are critical contributing factors to environmental hazards that affect the health of many hundreds of millions of people worldwide, particularly at the household level. Too often in too much of the world, however, the industrial and commercial development that helps reduce poverty has resulted in ambient environmental degradation and threats to human health as we...

[Occupational lung diseases].

Until workers can be effectively protected from the dusts, gases, and vapors that cause occupational lung diseases, clinicians must focus on careful history taking, precise diagnosis, and prompt therapy to relieve or reduce respiratory disability.

Occupational Lung Diseases