| Document ID (ISN) | 43967 |
| CIS number |
85-776 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
0391-2825 - Rivista di medicina del lavoro ed igiene industriale |
| Year |
1984 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Màgliaro A., Iannaccone S., Màgliaro N. |
| Title |
Cardiac and respiratory pathology of occupational origin in sulfur workers |
| Original title |
La patologia cardiaca e respiratoria di origine professionale nei lavoratori dello zolfo [in Italian] |
| Bibliographic information |
Apr.-June 1984, Vol.8, No.2, p.109-117. 8 ref. |
| Abstract |
Spirometric tests and electrocardiograms were performed on 200 present and past employees of a sulfur mine (length of employment: 5-30 years). Significant reductions in vital capacity (average 30%), in FEV1 (25-30%), increases in relative residual volume (29% in miners 39-45 years old, 57% in miners over 66 years old) and in residual volume/total lung capacity relation (by 36-43%, depending on age) were found. Significant changes in heart function occurred in 20% of the subjects (disturbances of atrial-ventricular conduction and of conduction in blood vessels on the right side of the body). Hypotheses for the aetiology of these changes are given. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
circulatory disorders; respiratory impairment; sulfur; sulfur mining |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
heart; spirometry; respiratory function tests; electrocardiographic changes |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
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| Broad subject area(s) |
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| Browse category(ies) |
Inorganic substances
Mining and quarrying
Diseases of the respiratory system (except for pneumoconiosis & similar)
Cardiovascular diseases
Inorganic sulfur compounds
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