Long-term occupational outcomes of endotoxin exposure and the effect of exposure cessation

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 107-112

  Skogstad, Marit ^a   Sikkeland, Liv Ingunn Bjoner ^b   Øvstebø, Reidun ^c   Haug, Kari Bente Foss ^c   Heldal, Kari Kulvik ^a   Skare, Øivind ^d,e   Kongerud, Johny ^b,f   Kierulf, Peter ^c   Eduard, Wijnand ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^c ULLEVÅL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^f OSLO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL SINGLE CELL PROTEIN; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; D DIMER; ENDOTOXIN; EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; FIBRINOGEN; INTERLEUKIN 6; MACROPHAGE INFLAMMATORY PROTEIN 1ALPHA; MONOCYTE CHEMOTACTIC PROTEIN 1; PLATELET DERIVED GROWTH FACTOR BB; RANTES; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACOUSTIC RHINOMETRY; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY FLOW; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; GAS DIFFUSION; HUMAN; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PNEUMONIA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPIROMETRY;

ACUTE-PHASE PROTEINS; ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; ENDOTOXINS; EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; FEMALE; FIBRIN FIBRINOGEN DEGRADATION PRODUCTS; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION MEDIATORS; LEUKOCYTES; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; TIME; VITAL CAPACITY;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 84855683326     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oem.2010.062414     Document Type: Article

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