Respiratory impairment in working coal miners.

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• Personal Author:
  Morgan WK
• Description:
  The types of physiological respiratory impairment seen in coal miners are described in an attempt to decide which of the impairments are related to coal mining and which to naturally occurring disease. Topics include ventilatory capacity, lung volumes, diffusing capacity, distribution of inspired gas, arterial blood, mechanics of respiration, and nonspecific obstructive airway diseases. It is indicated that in certain regions, there is a reduction of the ventilatory capacity of nonpneumoconiotic working miners over and above that produced by naturally occurring obstructive disease. The overall conclusion is that both the prevalence of pneumoconiosis and the prevalence of respiratory impairment differ in various geographical regions, probably due to physical or chemical composition of coal dust to which the men are exposed. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Coal Coal Mining Dust Lung Diseases Mining Occupational Health Respiratory Function Tests Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety
• Keywords:
  Coal-mining; Coal-dusts; Respiratory-system-disorders; Respirable-dusts; Dust-control; Lung-disorders; Physiological-functions; Respiratory-function-tests
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Report
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  ALFORD - Appalachian Laboratory for Occupational Respiratory Disease
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-22
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00025178
• Citation:
  NIOSH :1-22
• NORA Priority Area:
  Pulmonary System Disorders
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  Appalachian Laboratory for Respirable Occupational Disease, NIOSH, Morgantown, West Virginia, 22 pages, 10 references
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/241731/cdc_241731_DS1.pdf
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