Respiratory symptoms, exhaled nitric oxide, and lung function among workers in Tanzanian coffee factories

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 544-551

  Sakwari, Gloria ^a,b   Mamuya, Simon H D ^b   Bråtveit, Magne ^a   Moen, Bente E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b MUHIMBILI UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND ALLIED SCIENCES   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENDOTOXIN; NITRIC OXIDE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BRONCHITIS; CHEST TIGHTNESS; CHRONIC RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; COFFEE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEVICES; DUST EXPOSURE; DYSPNEA; FEMALE; FOOD INDUSTRY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; FORCED VITAL CAPACITY; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NIOX MINO DEVICE; PLEURISY; PNEUMONIA; PREVALENCE; SMOKING; SPIROMETRY; THORAX PAIN; TUBERCULOSIS; WHEEZING;

ADULT; AGED; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; BREATH TESTS; COFFEA; COFFEE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DUST; ENDOTOXINS; FOOD-PROCESSING INDUSTRY; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; INHALATION EXPOSURE; LUNG; MIDDLE AGED; NITRIC OXIDE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; TANZANIA; VITAL CAPACITY; YOUNG ADULT;

COFFEA ARABICA; COFFEA CANEPHORA;

EID: 84879183944     PISSN: 10762752     EISSN: 15365948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JOM.0b013e318285f453     Document Type: Article

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