Serum Bilirubin Levels and Disease Severity in Patients with Pneumoconiosis [PDF]
Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2023 Aim. To investigate the association between serum bilirubin and disease severity in patients with pneumoconiosis. Methods. The study comprised 45 patients with pneumoconiosis retrospectively; all pneumoconiosis patients were classified into I, II, and ...
You-Fan Peng +3 more
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Characteristics of Cognitive Function and Brain Alterations in Pneumoconiosis: A Cross‐Sectional Study [PDF]
Health Science Reports, Volume 9, Issue 5, May 2026.ABSTRACT Objectives Airborne particulate matter (PM) exposure may induce brain alterations and increase risks of cognitive impairment. Pneumoconiosis patients are exposed to harmful levels of PM for an extended period, providing an opportunity and a paradigm to study the impacts of PM and its interactions with the brain and cognition.
Xuanyu Huang +6 more
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Survival analysis of pneumoconiosis patients in Ninghai County of Zhejiang Province, 2019‒2023 [PDF]
Shanghai yufang yixueObjectiveTo understand the survival time and possible influencing factors of pneumoconiosis patients in Ninghai County, Zhejiang Province who were followed up from 2019 to 2023, and to provide references for prolonging the survival time of pneumoconiosis
CHEN Shuangping, HU Yanmin, ZHANG Feng
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Clinical characteristics and risk factors in pneumoconiosis patients with asthma [PDF]
Scientific ReportsTo investigate the risk factors for pneumoconiosis associated with asthma. A total of 256 pneumoconiosis patients diagnosed by chest X-ray at our hospital were analyzed. Based on pulmonary function tests, pneumoconiosis cases were divided into non-asthma
Zhifeng Chen +4 more
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Risk of pneumothorax in pneumoconiosis patients in Taiwan: a retrospective cohort study [PDF]
BMJ Open, 2021 Objectives This study was conducted to explore the association between pneumoconiosis and pneumothorax.Design Retrospective cohort study.Setting Nationwide population-based study using the Taiwan National Health Insurance Database.Participants A total of
Chia-Yen Dai +7 more
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Long-term survival and the critical role of competing risks in pneumoconiosis: a large-scale retrospective cohort study [PDF]
Frontiers in Public HealthBackgroundThe extension of survival in patients with pneumoconiosis has led to a shifting mortality spectrum where non-pneumoconiosis causes increasingly act as competing risks.
Xinlei Chu +12 more
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Serum KL-6 combined with immune/inflammatory biomarkers identifies complicated silicosis [PDF]
BMC Pulmonary MedicineBackground Complicated silicosis (CS) poses significant diagnostic challenges, with current diagnosis relying heavily on radiographic imaging. These challenges highlight a need for reliable non-invasive biomarkers to improve early detection and disease ...
Rui He +6 more
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Fibrinogen-to-albumin ratio as a novel biomarker in pneumoconiosis: a retrospective cohort study [PDF]
International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental HealthObjectives Pneumoconiosis is the most common occupational respiratory disease in Turkey and is associated with chronic systemic inflammation. Both occupational dust exposure and heavy metals such as lead may contribute to inflammatory responses.
Seval Müzeyyen Ecin, Semra Özkan
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Multi-slice spiral computerized tomography image characteristics of coal workers with pneumoconiosis [PDF]
环境与职业医学BackgroundMulti-slice spiral computerized tomography (MSCT) can be used as an auxiliary diagnosis of chest radiography in diagnosis of pneumoconiosis, but there are few studies on the correlations between interstitial images and stage classification of ...
Xinyu LI +8 more
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Association between pneumoconiosis and cataract risk: a nationwide retrospective cohort study in Taiwan [PDF]
BMJ OpenObjectives To investigate whether pneumoconiosis increases the risk of cataract.Design Nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study.Setting Taiwan’s National Health Insurance database, which covers >99% of the population.Participants The ...
Cheng-Li Lin +5 more
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