| Document ID (ISN) | 77674 |
| CIS number |
01-1695 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
1351-0711 - Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
| Year |
2000 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Hnizdo E., Churchyard G., Dowdeswel R. |
| Title |
Lung function prediction equations derived from healthy South African gold miners |
| Bibliographic information |
Oct. 2000, Vol.57, No.10, p.698-705. Illus. 15 ref. |
| Abstract |
The objective of the study was to estimate lung function prediction equations and to identify appropriate normal reference values for the population of about 250,000 South African gold miners. Data from a lung function-screening programme conducted at a large South African gold mine from 1994 to 1998 were used to estimate the lung function prediction equations. The prediction equations for forced vital capacity (FVC) and forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1) were estimated cross-sectionally on 15,772 black and 2,752 white healthy miners. Published reference equations that fitted most closely the observed data, respectively for white miners and black miners, were identified. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
South Africa; gold mining; pulmonary function; respirable dust |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
race-linked differences; prediction formulae; spirometry; respiratory function tests |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Country / State or Province | South Africa |
| Subject(s) |
Mines and quarries
|
| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
|
| Browse category(ies) |
Mining and quarrying
|
