A 20-year follow-up of a population sample (aged 25-34) including coal-miners and foundry workers in Staveley, Derbyshire.

A 20-year follow-up of men aged 55-64 including coal-miners and foundry workers in Staveley, Derbyshire.

A survey carried out in 1957 by the Medical Research Council's Pneumoconiosis Unit was based on a private census, with brief industrial histories of men aged 55-64 and 25-34. Four groups were established in this way--"non-dusty," "pure coal-mining," "pure foundry," and "other and mixed." In the 55-64 age group all 387 men have been followed up except for one man, about whom we have no informati...

Coronary disease in Staveley, Derbyshire with an international comparison with three towns in Marion county, West Virginia.

THE REPORTED death rate from coronary heart disease in men aged 35-64 is approximately half as high again in the United States as in the United Kingdom. Reid and his colleagues [l] have shown that the prevalence of cardiac pain and the frequency of electrocardiographic changes suggestive of myocardial ischaemia are commoner in middle-aged American than in British males. Their observations were ...

Occupational noise induced hearing loss in coal miners and coal washing factory workers in Kerman province

Introduction: The occupational noise induced hearing loss is one of the wide spread problems and a long term complication of working in noisy environments. At the present, large groups of workers who are working in noisy environments are exposed to hearing loss. So, this study is aimed to determine the prevalence of hearing loss (more than, 25 dB) of the workers in coal mines and leaching fac...

Population studies of chronic respiratory disease. A comparison of miners, foundryworkers, and others in Staveley. Derbyshire.

Mortality in Miners with Coal-Workers’ Pneumoconiosis in the Czech Republic in the Period 1992–2013

While working underground, miners are exposed to a number of risk factors that have a negative impact on their health and may be a cause of an increased mortality in miners. The aim of the study was to compare total and specific mortality in black coal miners with acknowledged coal-workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) and without CWP, and the mortality of the general male population in the Czech Repub...