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Understanding exposure risk using soil testing and GIS around an abandoned asbestos mine

Annals of Global Health
Background: Abandoned asbestos mines are a potential source of environmental contamination and exposure for nearby residents. The asbestos exposure risk may persist even after the cessation of mining activity if the mine is not properly closed.
Abhijeet V. Jadhav, Nilesh Gawde, Ramesh Veerappan, Yeyong Choi, Arthur L. Frank   +4 more
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Parámetros espirométricos en una muestra de trabajadores expuestos a polvos de asbesto y asbesto-cemento / Spirometric parameters in a sample of workers exposed to asbestos and asbestos-cement dusts

Revista Cubana de Salud y Trabajo, 2022
Resumen Introducción: Las enfermedades pulmonares ocupan el primer lugar entre las enfermedades profesionales y las relacionadas con el trabajo. Las neumoconiosis más importantes son las que progresan a lesiones irreversibles.
Frank López Avila, Ibis Avila Roque, Manuel Fernández Morales, Santiago Álvarez Porben   +3 more
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Asbestosis

American Journal of Public Health and the Nations Health, 1939
R R, Sayers, W C, Dreessen
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Neumoconiosis en el Uruguay

Anales de la Facultad de Medicina
La neumoconiosis es un problema de salud pública, en particular de salud ocupacional, ya que responde a un riesgo de salud para la población trabajadora que se encuentra expuesta a procesos laborales que generan polvo respirable fibrogénicos.
Nurit Stolovas, Fernando Tomasina
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Respiratory:Honeycomb Lung, Asbestosis

, 1900
Honeycomb lung secondary to asbestosis; organized hemothorax: Cystic changes characteristic of "honeycombing" are seen in bottom of lung on right; pleural space now covered by scar and soft tan ...
MUSC Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
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[Mortality due to mesothelioma and asbestosis in Campania Region (Southern Italy): perspectives for reducing asbestos exposure]

Objectives: to provide an overview of the geographical distribution of mesothelioma and asbestosis deaths in the Campania Region (Southern Italy) occurred from 2005 to 2018 and to identify areas at higher risk. Design: for each municipality, Standardized
Iavicoli, Ivo
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ASBESTOSIS [PDF]

The Lancet, 1975
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Mirada normativa: efectos en salud ocasionados por la exposición a fibra de amiantomianto: experiencia en Chile

Revista Colombiana de Salud Ocupacional
Introducción: Se ha documentado ampliamente el daño que puede causar la exposición al amianto en los seres humanos, ocasionando enfermedades como la asbestosis, placas pleurales, cáncer pulmonar, mesotelioma, engrosamiento de la pleura, derrames ...
Diemen Delgado-García, ¨Patricio Miranda-Astorga, Santiago Aldaz, Nayab Sultan, Ashley Delgado-Cano, Karla Delgado-Ostaiza   +5 more
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Environmental asbestosis complicated by lung cancer.

, 1994
Diagnosis of asbestosis and bronchiolo-alveolar carcinoma was made in a 55-year-old Turkish woman who was a nonsmoker. She originated from and was living in an area with a high prevalence of environmental diseases attributed to tremolite asbestos ...
Emri, Salih, Dumortier, Pascal, Coplü, L, Baris, Ïzzettin, Jacobovitz, Danielle, De Vuyst, Paul   +5 more
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Aging and Asbestosis of Parenchyma and/or Pleura

, 2003
Ispitivan je utjecaj dobi na plućne funkcije u odnosu na sijelo azbestnih promjena na plućima i/ili pleuri. Pregledano je 97 muškaraca s profesionalnom azbestozom i 100 ispitanika kontrolne skupine.
Mustajbegović, Jadranka, Senio Pažanin, Pažanin, Senio, Jadranka Mustajbegović   +3 more
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