The effects of exposure to organic dust on the respiratory system of potato processing workers

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 243-247

  Milanowski, Janusz ^a   Góra, Anna ^b   Skórska, Czesława ^b   Mackiewicz, Barbara ^a   Krysińska Traczyk, Ewa ^b   Cholewa, Grazyna ^b   Sitkowska, Jolanta ^b   Dutkiewicz, Jacek ^b  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LUBLIN   (Poland)

^b INSTITUTE OF AGRICULTURAL MEDICINE   (Poland)

Author keywords

Health effects; Lung function; Potato processing; Work related symptoms

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HEADACHE; HOARSENESS; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ORGANIC DUST; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; POTATO; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SKIN DEFECT; SMOKING HABIT; SPIROMETRY;

ADULT; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; AIR POLLUTION, INDOOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DUST; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; POLAND; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY HYPERSENSITIVITY; SMOKING; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

MARTES PENNANTI; SOLANUM TUBEROSUM;

EID: 0036916169     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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