Cement dust exposure and acute lung function: A cross shift study

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Zeleke, Zeyede K ^a   Moen, Bente E ^a   Bråtveit, Magne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEMENT;

ACUTE RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING; CEMENT INDUSTRY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUST EXPOSURE; DYSPNEA; ETHIOPIA; HUMAN; LIKERT SCALE; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG VENTILATION; MALE; NOSE CONGESTION; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SHIFT WORKER; SMOKING; SNEEZING; WORKPLACE; ACUTE LUNG INJURY; BUILDING MATERIAL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DUST; HEALTH SURVEY; HOSPITALIZATION; LUNG; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; ADULT; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DUST; DYSPNEA; ETHIOPIA; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NOSE DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; PREVALENCE; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77950651944     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712466     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2466-10-19     Document Type: Article

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