Emerging Opportunities to Prevent Occupational Lung Disease

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• Personal Author:
  Kreiss, Kathleen
• Description:
  New opportunities to prevent occupational lung diseases require the discovery of new occupational lung diseases, new settings for recognised occupational lung diseases, and new approaches to their prevention. Reviewing the last decade's discoveries, we can learn how to recognise new prevention opportunities involving emerging occupational lung diseases. Since 1996, some examples of newly recognised occupational lung disease include flock workers' lung, hypersensitivity pneumonitis associated with biocontaminated synthetic metal working fluids, severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), asthma associated with 3-amino-5-mercapto-1,2,4-triazole (AMT) in herbicide manufacture; and bronchiolitis obliterans from flavouring chemicals. If the past is paradigm, approaches to recognition and prevention can proceed without knowing how to measure causal agents and without regulating them. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Chemistry Dust Hypersensitivity Irritants Lung Lung Diseases Metals Occupational Health Particulate Matter Respiratory Hypersensitivity Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety

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• Keywords:
  Chemical-composition Chemical-hypersensitivity Chemical-properties Dust-inhalation Lung-disease Lung-disorders Lung-irritants Metal-fumes Metallic-dusts Metallic-fumes Particulate-dust Pneumoconiosis Pulmonary-disorders Pulmonary-system-disorders Respiratory-hypersensitivity Respiratory-irritants Respiratory-system-disorders

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• ISSN:
  1351-0711
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  499-500
• Volume:
  64
• Issue:
  8
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20032588
• Citation:
  Occup Environ Med 2007 Aug; 64(8):499-500
• Contact Point Address:
  Dr K Kreiss, Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505
• Email:
  kkreiss@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2007
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Occupational and Environmental Medicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:223fea8425a4c7fef7e0d2b950550a1e0207adf8f0415e9a8d36474470481083c9c52379e87ac487965e3f9239c593596b24d812092fcaf7c028e5d60eefcff0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/186506/cdc_186506_DS1.pdf
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