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Smoking-associated fibrosis and pulmonary asbestosis
International Journal of COPD, 2014 Jacob R Bledsoe,1 David C Christiani,2 Richard L Kradin1,2 1Department of Pathology, 2Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA Abstract: The diagnosis of pulmonary asbestosis is most often established based on clinical ...
Bledsoe JR, Christiani DC, Kradin RL
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Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health, 2015 IntroductionAlthough the use of asbestos has been banned in several industrialized countries, many workers continue to be exposed in asbestos repair and removal work, and asbestos is still widely used in various newly industrialized, rapidly developing ...
Henrik Wolff +4 more
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Pathological aspects of asbestosis [PDF]
Postgraduate Medical Journal, 1966 D. O’B. Hourihane, W. McCaughey
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Silicosis, asbestosis, and pulmonary fibrosis in Ontario, Canada from 1996 to 2019.
American Journal of Industrial Medicine, 2023 BACKGROUND Silicosis is a fibrotic lung disease caused by exposure to respirable crystalline silica. Historically, silicosis was common among miners and other professions in the 20th century, and in recent decades has re-emerged in coal mining and ...
Yizhi Zhang +6 more
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Plasma Metabolic Profiling in Patients With Silicosis and Asbestosis
Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2021 Supplemental Digital Content is available in the text Objectives: To explore the circulating metabolites and related pathways in silicosis and asbestosis exposure to different mineral dust.
Michael Zhou +5 more
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Thorax, 2021 Introduction The risk of asbestosis, malignant mesothelioma and lung cancer among motor vehicle mechanics is of concern because of potential exposure to chrysotile asbestos during brake, clutch and gasket repair and maintenance.
R. Thomsen +5 more
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Anales del Sistema Sanitario de Navarra, 2005 Asbestosis is a diffuse interstitial pulmonary fibrosis, secondary to the inhalation of asbestos fibres. There is a dose-response relationship between exposure to asbestos and the risk of developing asbestosis, in such a way that the greater the exposure, the greater the risk of developing the disease.
Marín Martínez, B., Clavera, I.
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Survival of patients with asbestosis can be assessed by risk-predicting models
Occupational and Environmental Medicine, 2021 Objectives Our aim was to investigate the pulmonary function test (PFT) results of patients with asbestosis and determine whether baseline PFTs and the risk-predicting models such as gender, age and physiologic (GAP) variables model and composite ...
Eerika Keskitalo +3 more
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