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ID (ISN) del documento43967
Número CIS 85-776
ISSN - Título de la serie 0391-2825 - Rivista di medicina del lavoro ed igiene industriale
Año 1984
Número de serie
Autor(es) Màgliaro A., Iannaccone S., Màgliaro N.
Título Cardiac and respiratory pathology of occupational origin in sulfur workers
Título original La patologia cardiaca e respiratoria di origine professionale nei lavoratori dello zolfo [en italiano]
Información bibliográfica Apr.-June 1984, Vol.8, No.2, p.109-117. 8 ref.
Resumen 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.
Descriptores (primarios) trastornos circulatorios; afectación respiratoria; azufre; minas de azufre
Descriptores (secundarios) corazón; espirometría; pruebas funcionales respiratorias; alteraciones electrocardiográficas
Tipo de documento D - Artículos periódicos
Tema(s) Patología profesional
Broad subject area(s)
Navegación por categoria(s) Cardiovascular diseases
Diseases of the respiratory system (except for pneumoconiosis & similar)
Inorganic sulfur compounds
Mining and quarrying
Inorganic substances