| Document ID (ISN) | 108251 |
| CIS number |
08-580 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
1351-0711 - Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
| Year |
2007 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Kreiss K. |
| Title |
Emerging opportunities to prevent occupational lung disease |
| Bibliographic information |
Aug. 2007, Vol.64, No.8, p.499-500. 12 ref. |
| Abstract |
Although 80% of cases of chronic obstructive respiratory disease are attributable to smoking, the remaining 20% are believed to be mostly due to occupational causes, particularly among persons below the age of 45. This editorial argues that population-based multidisciplinary follow-up of sentinel cases of emerging lung diseases suspected to be due to occupational factors can enable occupational physicians to recommend risk-based preventive measures. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
occupational diseases; epidemiology; industrial physicians; risk factors; occupational medicine; lung diseases |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome; extrinsic allergic alveolitis; aetiology; food industry; asthma; cutting fluids; hazard evaluation; smoking |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | USA |
| Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Epidemiology
Diseases of the respiratory system (except for pneumoconiosis & similar)
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