Functional variables associated with the clinical grade of dyspnoea in coal miners with pneumoconiosis and mild bronchial obstruction

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 58, Issue 12, 2001, Pages 794-799

  Bauer, T T ^a   Schultze Werninghaus, G ^a   Kollmeier, J ^a   Weber, A ^c   Eibel, R ^c   Lemke, B ^b   Schmidt, E W ^d  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b Division of Cardiology and Angiology   (Germany)

^c RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^d Klinik für Innere Medizin IV   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bronchial obstruction; Coal workers' pneumoconiosis; Ventilation

Indexed keywords

COAL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHUS OBSTRUCTION; COAL MINING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG MINUTE VOLUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SELF REPORT;

AGED; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; COAL; COUGH; DYSPNEA; EXERCISE TEST; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MINING; PLETHYSMOGRAPHY; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PULMONARY DISEASE, CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE; RESIDUAL VOLUME; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SMOKING; STATISTICS; VENTILATION-PERFUSION RATIO; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 0035172282     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.58.12.794     Document Type: Article

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