Letter: Exposure to asbestos dust.

Pulmonary fibrosis following household exposure to asbestos dust?

An 81-year-old woman was dying from histologically confirmed pulmonary fibrosis without having had any asbestos exposure in the workplace. The lung dust fibre analysis showed significantly increased "asbestos bodies" (AB) (2,640 AB per gram of wet lung tissue) and asbestos fibre concentrations (8,600,000 amphibole fibres of all lengths and 540,000 amphibole fibres with a length ≥5 μm per gram o...

Workplace Exposure to Asbestos

Cardiovascular adverse health effect of occupational exposure to Licorice dust

Introduction: Prolonged use of licorice is known to cause headaches hypertension cardiac arrhythmias edema lethargy shortness of breath sodium retention and loss of potassium in healthy people. However to best of authors' knowledge to date the potential adverse health effects of occupational inhalation exposure to licorice dust have not been examined. This study was therefore under look to ad...

Effects on health of exposure to asbestos

Radiographic Abnormalities and Exposure to Asbestos-Contaminated

Radiographic Abnormalities and Exposure to Asbestos-Contaminated Vermiculite in the Community of Libby, Montana, USA Lucy A. Peipins,1,* Michael Lewin,1 Sharon Campolucci,1 Jeffrey A. Lybarger,1 Aubrey Miller,2 Dan Middleton,1 Christopher Weis,2 Michael Spence,3 Brad Black,4 and Vikas Kapil1 1Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; 2U.S. Environmental Protection...