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The national sheet metal worker asbestos disease screening program: Radiologic findings
Author(s) -
Welch Laura S.,
Michaels David,
Zoloth Stephen R.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
american journal of industrial medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.7
H-Index - 104
eISSN - 1097-0274
pISSN - 0271-3586
DOI - 10.1002/ajim.4700250504
Subject(s) - medicine , asbestos , occupational exposure , occupational disease , environmental health , metallurgy , materials science
This report presents data gathered from a series of asbestos disease screening examinations of 9,605 United States sheet metal workers who were first employed in the trade at least 20 years before the examination. The overall prevalence of asbestos‐related radiographic changes was 31.1%: 18.8% had pleural abnormalities alone, 6.6% had parenchymal abnormalities (International Labour Office (ILO) score of 1/0 or higher) © 1994 Wiley‐Liss, Inc.