Mapping and prediction of Coal Workers' Pneumoconiosis with bioavailable iron content in the bituminous coals

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 113, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 964-968

  Huang, Xi ^a   Li, Weihong ^a   Attfield, Michael D ^b   Nádas, Arthur ^a   Frenkel, Krystyna ^a   Finkelman, Robert B ^c  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bioavailable iron; Calcite; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Coal; COPD; Pneumoconiosis

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM CARBONATE; FERROUS SULFATE; IRON; PYRITE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SULFURIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL INTERACTION; COAL MINING; COAL WORKER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY; CALCIUM CARBONATE; COAL; COAL MINING; HUMANS; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; INHALATION EXPOSURE; IRON; LUNG; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; SULFIDES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 23844431584     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.7679     Document Type: Article

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