Is the increasing prevalence and severity of coal workers' pneumoconiosis in the United States due to increasing silica exposure?

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 67, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 649-650

  Cohen, Robert A C ^a  

^a Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICON DIOXIDE;

CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COAL MINING; COAL WORKER; COAL WORKER PNEUMOCONIOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE CONTROL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; DUST CONTROL; HUMAN; LUNG FIBROSIS; NOTE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY; PNEUMOCONIOSIS; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGRESSIVE MASSIVE FIBROSIS; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK FACTOR; SILICOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; UNITED STATES;

ANTHRACOSIS; COAL MINING; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; SILICON DIOXIDE; SILICOSIS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77956933311     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2009.050096     Document Type: Note

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