Comparison of pulmonary function test abnormalities between stone crushing dust exposed and nonexposed agricultural workers

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 191-198

  Chattopadhyay, B P ^a   Gangopadhyay, P K ^a   Bandopadhyay, T S ^b   Alam, Jane ^a  

^a INDIAN COUNCIL OF MEDICAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b Inst Wetland Mgmt and Ecol Des   (India)

Author keywords

Crushers; Elevators; Obstructive impairment and combined impairment; Quarry; Restrictive impairment; Screens

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUST EXPOSURE; FEMALE; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INDIA; JOB ANALYSIS; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MALE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PREVALENCE; RADIODIAGNOSIS; SMOKING HABIT; SPIROMETRY; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 33746911894     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1265/ehpm.11.191     Document Type: Article

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