Relationships Between Lung Dust Burden, Pathology and Lifetime Exposure in an Autopsy Study of U.S. Coal Miners

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• Personal Author:
  Attfield MD ; Green FHY ; Kuempel, Eileen D. ; O'Flaherty EJ ; Stayner, Leslie T. ; Vallyathan V
• Description:
  Previous pathological studies of U.S. miners have described correlations between radiographical and pathological evidence of coal workers' pneumoconiosis and lung dust burden (Vallyathan et al., 1996; Attfield et al., 1994). The present study includes estimates of miners' lifetime cumulative exposures to respirable coal mine dust and investigation of the relationships between duration and cumulative exposure, lung dust burden and pathological response. Also investigated is the estimated mean lung dust clearance during the retirement period. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Environmental Monitoring Lung Lung Diseases Mining Occupational Health Pathology Radiation Radiography Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety

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• Keywords:
  Coal-workers Coal-workers-pneumoconiosis Exposure-assessment Exposure-limits Lung-burden Lung-disease Lung-disorders Lung-irritants Mine-workers Miners Mining-industry Radiographic-analysis

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• ISBN:
  0080427405
• ISSN:
  0003-4878
• Publisher:
  Pergamon
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Ohio ; OSHA Region 5
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  HELD - Health Effects Laboratory Division ; EID - Education and Information Division
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  384-389
• Volume:
  41
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20024876
• Citation:
  Ann Occup Hyg, Inhaled Particles VIII 1997 Jan; 41(Suppl 1):384-389
• Contact Point Address:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), Education and Information Division, 4676 Columbia Parkway, MS C32, Cincinnati, OH 45226
• Editor(s):
  Cherry N; Ogden T
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1997
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Annals of Occupational Hygiene, Inhaled Particles VIII
• Supplement:
  1
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:dc3aeae7c3b8c9441db2363424376ced9194685ad51a41df93e2d1a8f75e2b7ec68531d83dde48cb3661230a53a42e1e66c68bec2bd7a990274cef99f5f933cc
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/196473/cdc_196473_DS1.pdf
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