Respiratory impairments due to dust exposure: A comparative study among workers exposed to silica, asbestos, and coalmine dust

American Journal of Industrial Medicine

Volumn 31, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 495-502

  Wang, Xiaorong ^a,c   Yano, Eiji ^a   Nonaka, Koichi ^a   Wang, Mianzheng ^b   Wang, Zhiming ^b  

^a TEIKYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b SICHUAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c TEIKYO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

asbestos; asbestosis; coal workers' pneumoconiosis; coalmine dust; diffusing capacity; pulmonary function; respiratory impairments; silica; silicosis; spirometric parameters

Indexed keywords

ASBESTOS; SILICON DIOXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASBESTOSIS; COAL MINING; COAL WORKER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG VENTILATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SILICOSIS; SPIROMETRY; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ASBESTOS; ASBESTOSIS; CHINA; COAL MINING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DUST; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILICOSIS; SMOKING;

EID: 0030959508     PISSN: 02713586     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199705)31:5<495::AID-AJIM2>3.0.CO;2-T     Document Type: Article

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