RADIOGRAPHIC ABNORMALITIES AMONG ASBESTOS-CEMENT WORKERS - AN EXPOSURE-RESPONSE STUDY
- 1 January 1984
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Elsevier
- Vol. 129 (1), 17-22
- https://doi.org/10.1164/arrd.1984.129.1.17
Abstract
Development was studied of small irregular opacities and bilateral pleural thickening in a longitudinal study of 181 asbestos-cement workers. Relationships between the 32-yr risks of developing abnormalities and cumulative exposure to asbestos dust could be described with log-normal curves. Smokers had higher risks of both abnormalities than did nonsmokers. In this cohort, men leaving asbestos exposure had a risk of radiographic progression similar to men continuing in exposure, and men with abnormal radiographs had higher mortality rates than did men with normal ones.This publication has 6 references indexed in Scilit:
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