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BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2021 Background Silicosis is a progressive pneumoconiosis characterized by interstitial fibrosis following exposure to silica dust. The role of metabolic dysregulation in the pathogenesis of silicosis has not been investigated in detail.
Changjiang Xue +4 more
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Frontiers in Immunology, 2022 ObjectiveTo evaluate the association between single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in RNA-seq identified mRNAs and silicosis susceptibility.MethodsA comprehensive RNA-seq was performed to screen for differently expressed mRNAs in the peripheral blood ...
Yan Zhou +12 more
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Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care, 2021 Context: Silicosis is a progressive, irreversible and incurable respiratory morbidity and often becomes a cause for pre-mature mortality among occupationally silica dust-exposed workers in India and similar countries.
Subroto S Nandi +2 more
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Review on role of NLRP3 inflammasome in pathogenesis of silicosis
环境与职业医学, 2022 Silicosis is one of the most common forms of pneumoconiosis globally. Workers who engage in mining, construction, ceramics, and many other industries have a high risk of developing silicosis. Chronic and repeated inhalation of free silica (SiO2) dust (
Zhenzhen FAN +6 more
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Trends in silicosis prevalence and the healthy worker effect among gold miners in South Africa: a prevalence study with follow up of employment status. [PDF]
, 2015 BACKGROUND: Given the intimate association between silicosis and tuberculosis, understanding the epidemiology of the South African gold mining industry silicosis epidemic is essential to current initiatives to control both silicosis and tuberculosis in ...
Churchyard, Gavin +5 more
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Social determinants of an occupational lung disease: Workers’ narratives on silicosis
SSM: Qualitative Research in Health, 2023 Silicosis is a preventable occupational lung disease caused by inhaled silica dust. Solutions to prevent silicosis ranging from engineering controls to respirator use have been validated for nearly a century, but many workers are still at-risk of this ...
Yanni Liang +3 more
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The politics of silicosis in interwar Spain : republican and francoist approaches to occupational health [PDF]
, 2008 This article explores the emergence and recognition of silicosis as an occupational disease in interwar Spain. Following International Labour Office guidelines, growing international concerns and local medical evidence, Republican administrators provided
Menéndez-Navarro, Alfredo
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Asbestosis and silicosis [PDF]
The Lancet, 1997 Interstitial fibrosis resulting from workplace exposure to asbestos and crystalline silica persists throughout the world despite knowledge of the causes and effective means for prevention. Asbestosis and silicosis occurrence is predictable among people overexposed to dusts in various industries and occupations such as mining, construction ...
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Respiratory parameters at varied altitudes in intermittent mining work [PDF]
, 2017 Objectives: Workers in the mining industry in altitude are subjected to several risk factors, e.g., airborne silica and low barometric pressure. The aim of this study has been to assess the risks for this work category, evaluating single risk factors as ...
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Case Reports in Pulmonology, 2016 Moraxella (formerly Branhamella) catarrhalis was discovered at the end of the nineteenth century, and for many decades it was considered to be a harmless commensal of the upper respiratory tract.
Miguel Angel Ariza-Prota +4 more
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