Chronic bronchitis in an Egyptian ice factory.

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• Personal Author:
  Awad S ; El-Sewefy AZ
• Description:
  Chronic bronchitis is found in 20% of employees of an ice manufacturing plant exposed to ammonia, frost, and dampness, and in 14% of workers in non-exposed areas. Lung mechanics, expressed by forced vital capacity and forced expiratory volume measurements, are slightly lower for the exposed workers than for the control group. Differences in incidence of chronic bronchitis and lung ventilation in he workers are not considered to be significant, smoking found to be significantly related to respiratory symptoms in the workers. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Air Pollutants, Occupational Cold Temperature Epidemiology Hazardous Substances Lung Occupational Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety
• Keywords:
  Ammonia; Environmental-effects; Respiratory-system-disorders; Toxic-gases; Air-contaminants; Cold-environments; Etiology; Symptomology; Epidemiology; Physical-properties; Pulmonary-functions
• ISSN:
  0013-2411
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  304-310
• Volume:
  54
• Issue:
  5
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:00027688
• Citation:
  J Egypt Med Assoc 1971 May; 54(5):304-310
• CAS Registry Number:
  Ammonia (CAS RN 7664-41-7)
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  1971
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Source Full Name:
  The Journal of the Egyptian Medical Association
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:7dc847c09aedf140bc731323e8446b4703641ae07d6ad9e7b7238120dab30b8f7dcaa9b938d34d035f87873a0fe7fec262d5d13dcaf290925445e82b6de3b57d
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/241739/cdc_241739_DS1.pdf
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