Occupational and Environmental Lung Diseases

Occupational and environmental lung diseases: an overview.

Chronic respiratory diseases other than lung cancer that are of occupational or environmental origin, along with cigarette smoking, account for over 100,000 deaths per year and are among the leading causes of respiratory disability in the United States and throughout the world. Lung cancer from these same exposures may account for 40,000 additional deaths per year. In spite of cigarette smoking...

International conference on environmental and occupational lung diseases.

Poverty and lack of development are critical contributing factors to environmental hazards that affect the health of many hundreds of millions of people worldwide, particularly at the household level. Too often in too much of the world, however, the industrial and commercial development that helps reduce poverty has resulted in ambient environmental degradation and threats to human health as we...

[Occupational lung diseases].

Until workers can be effectively protected from the dusts, gases, and vapors that cause occupational lung diseases, clinicians must focus on careful history taking, precise diagnosis, and prompt therapy to relieve or reduce respiratory disability.

Occupational Lung Diseases

Occupational Interstitial Lung Diseases.

OBJECTIVE Evidence-based diagnostic and treatment guidelines for occupationally related interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) have been developed and are summarized herein. METHODS Comprehensive literature reviews were conducted with article abstraction, critiquing, objective grading, and evidence table compilation. A multidisciplinary expert panel drafted evidence- and consensus-based guidance. ...