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Occupational lung disease [PDF]
Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 2013 Occupational medicine represents the interface between work and health. As such, its breadth encompasses issues of clinical medicine, epidemiology, occupational hygiene, toxicology, ethics, and the law. The diagnosis of an occupational lung disease has implications not only for the health of the worker, but also in some circumstances for the health of
P T Reid, P A Reid
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BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2021 Introduction Occupational asthma (OA) accounts for one in six cases of adult-onset asthma and is associated with a large societal cost. Many cases of OA are missed or delayed, leading to ongoing exposure to the causative agent and avoidable lung function
Christopher M Barber, Gareth I Walters
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Consensus of Chinese experts on pulmonary rehabilitation of pneumoconiosis (2022)
环境与职业医学, 2022 Pneumoconiosis is a disease mainly characterized by diffuse fibrosis of lung tissues, which often leads to various chronic respiratory complications/comorbidities.
Occupational Lung Disease Group of Labor Hygiene and Occupational Diseases Branch of Chinese Preventive Medicine Association +1 more
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Nurse and Health, 2022 Background: The activity of the sandstone home industry has a high risk of occupational lung disease, namely silicosis with exposure to respirable dust that contains silica below 2.5 microns.
Nima Eka Nur Rahmania +1 more
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Occupational interstitial lung diseases
Journal of Internal Medicine, 2023 AbstractMillions of workers are exposed to substances known to cause occupational interstitial lung diseases (ILDs), particularly in developing countries. However, the burden of the disease is likely to be underestimated due to under‐recognition, under‐reporting or both.
Spagnolo, Paolo +11 more
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ERJ Open Research, 2022 Background The COVID-19 pandemic follows severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) coronavirus epidemics. Some survivors of COVID-19 infection experience persistent respiratory symptoms, yet their cause and ...
Christopher C. Huntley +13 more
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Safety and Health at Work, 2013 Here, we present a case of lung cancer in a 48-year-old male horse trainer. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first such case report to include an exposure assessment of respirable crystalline silica (RCS) as a quartz.
Jin-Ha Yoon +6 more
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Safety and Health at Work, 2013 A 46-year-old man who had worked as a bumper spray painter in an automobile body shop for 15 years developed lung cancer. The patient was a nonsmoker with no family history of lung cancer.
Boowook Kim +3 more
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Safety and Health at Work, 2012 Previous studies on the vast increase in suicide mortality in Southeast Asia have indicated that suicide rates increase in parallel with a rise in unemployment or during periods of economic recession. This paper examines the effects of economic recession
Jin-Ha Yoon +4 more
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Lung Imaging with UTE MRI [PDF]
, 2023 Cross-sectional imaging of the lungs, or pulmonary imaging, has proven to be an incredibly valuable tool in a wide range of pulmonary diseases. The vast majority of lung imaging is done with CT, as it is fast enough to freeze respiratory motion and provides high spatial resolution to visualize fine structure of the lungs.
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