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ABSTRACT We evaluated 12 workers with documented exposure to respirable crystalline silica who were referred to a tertiary care center due to clinical suspicion of silicosis, sarcoidosis, or silicosarcoidosis. Although silica exposure is a well‐established risk factor for silicosis and has been associated with autoimmune diseases, mycobacterial ...
Guilherme Ward Leite +9 more
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Chronic cough due to occupational factors [PDF]
Within the large variety of subtypes of chronic cough, either defined by their clinical or pathogenetic causes, occupational chronic cough may be regarded as one of the most preventable forms of the disease.
Fischer, Axel +3 more
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ABSTRACT Background For much of the 20th century, the South African mining industry had a statutory compensation system for pneumoconiosis and tuberculosis characterized by gross racial inequality. This study examines the impact of inflation over the period 1973–2024 on the real value of miners' lung disease compensation, including the effect of the ...
Martin Nicol +3 more
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Identification and classification of high risk groups for Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis using an artificial neural network based on occupational histories: a retrospective cohort study [PDF]
Background Coal workers' pneumoconiosis (CWP) is a preventable, but not fully curable occupational lung disease. More and more coal miners are likely to be at risk of developing CWP owing to an increase in coal production and utilization, especially in ...
Hongbo Liu +39 more
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Consensus of Chinese experts on pulmonary rehabilitation of pneumoconiosis (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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The study developed a PVDF/SiO2 humidity sensor with superhydrophobic properties and integrated the humidity sensor into the intelligent powered air‐purifying respirator (IPAPR) for breath monitoring. Coupled with the Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) machine learning prediction algorithm, it enables feedforward control of the fan to achieve respiratory ...
Xinjian He +9 more
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ABSTRACT Background and Aims Policymakers require accurate and localized data on the burden of chronic respiratory diseases (CRDs) to allocate resources and design targeted interventions. Our objective was to explore longitudinal patterns in CRD metrics across Iranian provinces over three decades, leveraging recent subnational estimates from Global ...
Mohammad Sadegh Loeloe +4 more
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PNEUMOCONIOSIS IN A SPOONBILL - A CASE REPORT [PDF]
Pneumoconiosis has been identified in an adult dead spoonbill (Platalea leucorodia) from a Zoo in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
B. B. Roy +5 more
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A cardiopulmonary exercise testing‐derived summed score effectively predicted mortality or lung transplantation risk in newly diagnosed interstitial lung disease. Higher summed scores (2–5) were associated with markedly lower event‐free survival rates.
Yu‐Lin Tsai +6 more
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Background Immunochemotherapy has become the standard first-line treatment for advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), yet response rates remain limited.
Yi-fei Chen +7 more
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