Interstitial Fibrosis in Coal Workers – Experience in Wales and West Virginia

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• Personal Author:
  Green FHY ; Lyons JP ; McConnochie K ; Seal RME ; Vallyathan V ; Wagner JC
• Description:
  Forty-five Welsh coal-miners with interstitial pulmonary fibrosis have been studied in detail. They differ from other members of the population with this disease by having significantly longer survival. Mean duration of illness was 11.4 +/- 5 years for those who bad died compared with a mean maximum survival of 4.5 years quoted in published series of pulmonary fibrosis of occupational origin. The disease is not unique to South Wales coal-miners. Autopsy studies from two populations of United States miners suggest a similar prevalence. Pathological features are the same in both groups. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Demography Epidemiology Mining Occupational Health Pathology Race Factors Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety
• Keywords:
  Coal-miners Coal-mining Demographic-characteristics Fibrogenesis Fibrogenicity Humans Pulmonary-system-disorders Racial-factors Respiratory-system-disorders Statistical-analysis
• ISBN:
  0080341853
• ISSN:
  0003-4878
• Publisher:
  Pergamon Press
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Volume:
  32
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20033153
• Citation:
  Ann Occup Hyg, Inhaled Particles VI 1988 Dec; 32(Suppl 1):553-560
• Editor(s):
  Dodgson J; McCallum RI; Bailey MR; Fisher DR
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1989
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Annals of Occupational Hygiene, Inhaled Particles VI
• Supplement:
  1
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/188839/cdc_188839_DS1.pdf
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