Respiratory diseases in wood workers.
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Respiratory diseases in wood workers.
A survey was carried out on wood workers and on a group of unexposed, healthy controls. One group of wood workers (group A) were asymptomatic and another (group B) had symptoms either of chronic cough and dyspnoea on exertion (B1) or dyspnoea at work and bronchial hyperreactivity (B2). The control group (group C) was randomly selected from among a population of laboratory workers. No significan...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 1987
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.44.1.53