Respiratory disease among flavoring-exposed workers in food and flavoring manufacture

Clinical Pulmonary Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 165-173

  Kreiss, Kathleen ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY AND HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

2,3 butanedione; bronchiolitis obliterans; flavorings; spirometry surveillance

Indexed keywords

2,3 BUTANEDIONE; 2,3 HEPTANEDIONE; 2,3 HEXANEDIONE; 2,3 PENTANEDIONE; BUTYRIC ACID; FLAVORING AGENT; TOXIC GAS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUTE LUNG INJURY; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRONCHIECTASIS; BRONCHIOLITIS OBLITERANS; BUTTER; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COUGHING; DYSPNEA; EMPHYSEMA; FOOD INDUSTRY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; INDUSTRIAL WORKER; LUNG BIOPSY; LUNG DIFFUSION CAPACITY; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG FIBROSIS; LUNG FUNCTION; LUNG GRANULOMA; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; NONHUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; OCCUPATIONAL LUNG DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL PHYSICIAN; ORGANIZING PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESPIRATORY EPITHELIUM; RODENT; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; THORACOSCOPY; THORAX INJURY; TISSUE NECROSIS; TOTAL LUNG CAPACITY; TRACHEOMALACIA;

EID: 84863574654     PISSN: 10680640     EISSN: 15365956     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CPM.0b013e31825d5b57     Document Type: Article

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