background: this study was to determine the prevalence of respiratory health complaints, allergy symptom, lung functions, and the association between airborne concentrations of chromium and aluminium with respiratory health and allergy symptoms among machining industry workers in selangor, malaysia. methods: the study design was a cross-sectional comparative study. the respiratory and allergy s...

there are evidences that statins have anti-inflammatory effects beyond their cholesterol lowering properties. the study was conducted to assess the effects of atorvastatin on asthma as an inflammatory disease. patients with moderate to severe asthma were entered this randomized, double blind, crossover clinical trial. the impact of oral atorvastatin (10 mg/day) on the lung function of normolipi...

The lung function impairment is the most common respiratory problem in industrial plants and their vicinity. Therefore, the purpose was to study the affects of wood dust and its duration of exposure on lung function. This was a matched cross-sectional study of Spirometry in 46 non-smoking wood workers with age range 20 - 60 years, who worked without the benefit of wood dust control ventilation ...

Thoracic surgery remains the better therapeutic option for non-small cell lung cancer patients that are diagnosed in early stage disease. Preoperative lung function assessment includes respiratory function tests (RFT) and cardio-pulmonary exercise testing (CPET). Vo2 peak, FEV1 and DLCO as well as recognition of performance status, presence of co-morbidities, frailty indexes, and age predict th...

Respiratory tract involvement is common in adults with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). Although SLE in children usually follows a more severe course than in adults, there are few reports on pulmonary disease and lung function in children with SLE. We performed lung function tests and chest x ray examinations in eight children with SLE (mean age 11.1 years), three of whom presented with pulm...

3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coa reductase inhibitors (statins), are effective serum cholesterol-lowering agents which also have anti-inflammatory properties. the objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of atorvastatin on bronchial hyperresponsiveness. adult patients (age 14 to 65 years) with bronchial hyperresponsiveness (bhr) diagnosis based on the spirometry with methacholine challe...

introduction: pulmonary involvement secondary to systemic sclerosis (ssc) is the major cause of morbidity and mortality in ssc patients. we designed this study to determine the correlation of important lung function parameters with lung high resolution ct (hrct) scan findings.materials and methods: thirty–two consecutive diffuse ssc patients with pulmonary fibrosis were enrolled in this cross-s...

Langlands, Jean H. M., Wallace, W. F. M., and Simpson, Marion J. C. (1971). Brit. J. industr. Med., 28, 217-225. Insulation workers in Belfast. 2. Morbidity in men still at work. Two hundred and fifty-two (93 Y.) of the insulation workers in Belfast were examined by chest x-ray, questionnaire, clinical examination, and tests of respiratory function. The frequency of chest x-ray abnormality, lun...

previous literature has implicated that there might be an individual susceptibility difference in terms of race/ethnicity and gender in response to second hand smoke (shs) exposure. this study was done to examine the effect of shs exposure on lung function in non-smoking korean women.this cross-sectional study was conducted using the korea national health and nutrition examination survey (knhan...

background welding is defined as linking two metals with a local conjunction in sufficient thermal, pressing and metallurgical condition. there are several methods for linking two metals in welding. objectives welding is one of the professional jobs in iran, yet there have not been considerable studies on its harmful effects. the current study aimed to compare lung functional tests between weld...