Airway inflammation in cement production workers

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 395-400

  Fell, Anne Kristin M ^a,b   Sikkeland, Liv Ingunn B ^b   Svendsen, Martin Veel ^a   Kongerud, Johny ^b,c  

^a TELEMARK HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA;

AEROSOL; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CEMENT INDUSTRY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; FURNACE; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LEUKOCYTE DIFFERENTIAL COUNT; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; SPIROMETRY; SPUTUM;

ADULT; AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS; DUST; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUTROPHILS; NORWAY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; SPIROMETRY; SPUTUM;

EID: 77953751843     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2009.047852     Document Type: Article

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