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Recognising the importance of chronic lung disease: a consensus statement from the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (Lung Diseases group)

Respiratory Research, 2023
Background Chronic respiratory diseases are disorders of the airways and other structures of the lung, and include chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), lung cancer, asthma, bronchiectasis, interstitial lung diseases, occupational lung diseases ...
G. Gould, J. Hurst, A. Trofor, J. Alison, Gregory Fox, Muralidhar M. Kulkarni, C. Wheelock, Marilyn Clarke, Ratika Kumar   +8 more
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Exposure Assessment Suggests Exposure to Lung Cancer Carcinogens in a Painter Working in an Automobile Bumper Shop

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, Jin-Ha Yoon, Byung-Soon Choi, Yong Chul Shin   +3 more
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Government laboratory worker with lung cancer: comparing risks from beryllium, asbestos, and tobacco smoke. [PDF]

, 2000
Occupational medicine physicians are frequently asked to establish cancer causation in patients with both workplace and non-workplace exposures. This is especially difficult in cases involving beryllium for which the data on human carcinogenicity are ...
Balmes, JR, Steinmaus, C
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Interstitial lung disease related to occupational hard metal exposure: two case reports

Journal of Medical Case Reports, 2023
Background Hard metal lung disease (HMLD) is a relatively less known occupational interstitial lung disease, and instances of HMLD resulting from para-occupational exposure are rarely reported.
I-Fan Lin, Hsiao-Chin Shen, Shiou-Fu Lin, Ho-Chuen Chang, Tzu-Tao Chen   +4 more
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Long-Term Efficacy of Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Patients with Occupational Respiratory Diseases [PDF]

, 2012
Background: Pulmonary rehabilitation is a well-recognized treatment option in chronic obstructive lung disease improving exercise performance, respiratory symptoms and quality of life.
Jörres, Rudolf A., Kellberger, Jessica, Kotschy-Lang, Nicola, Nowak, Dennis, Ochmann, Uta, Raab, Wolfgang   +5 more
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Pulmonary function test and computed tomography features during follow-up after SARS, MERS and COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis

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, Ketan Patel, Shahnoor-E-Salam Bil Bushra, Farah Mobeen, Michael N. Armitage, Anita Pye, Chloe B. Knight, Alyaa Mostafa, Marie Kershaw, Aishah Z. Mughal, Emily McKemey, Alice M. Turner, P. Sherwood Burge, Gareth I. Walters   +13 more
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Gene-environment interaction effects on lung function- a genome-wide association study within the Framingham heart study [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Previous studies in occupational exposure and lung function have focused only on the main effect of occupational exposure or genetics on lung function.
Christiani, David C, Liao, Shu-Yi, Lin, Xihong   +2 more
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Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis Associated with Environmental Mycobacteria [PDF]

, 2005
A previously healthy man working as a machine operator in an automotive factory developed respiratory symptoms. Medical evaluation showed abnormal pulmonary function tests, a lung biopsy showed hypersensitivity pneumonitis, and his illness was traced to ...
Akshay Sood, Anonymous, CDC, Donald Milton, Mery A, Michael Kallay, William Beckett, Zhengfa Zuo   +7 more
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Investigating the Time Lag Effect between Economic Recession and Suicide Rates in Agriculture, Fisheries, and Forestry Workers in Korea

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, Washington Junger, Boo-Wook Kim, Young-Joo Kim, Sang-Baek Koh   +4 more
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Occupational asthma: a review. [PDF]

, 2000
Occupational asthma is the most common form of occupational lung disease in the developed world at the present time. In this review, the epidemiology, pathogenesis/mechanisms, clinical presentations, management, and prevention of occupational asthma are ...
Axon EJ, Balmes JR, Frew A, Gannon PF, Gannon PFG, J R Balmes, Jajosky RA, L J Lombardo, Mapp CE, Meredith SK, Mitchell CA, Musk AW, Nordman H., Young RP   +13 more
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