Lung Pathology in U.S. Coal Workers with Rapidly Progressive Pneumoconiosis Implicates Silica and Silicates

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Robert A. Cohen · Northwestern University

Edward L. Petsonk · Department of Physics, Mathematics and Informatics

Cecile S. Rose · National Jewish Health

Byron Young · Charleston Area Medical Center

Michael Regier · West Virginia University

Asif Najmuddin · Department of Physics, Mathematics and Informatics

Jerrold L. Abraham

Abstract

Our findings suggest that rapidly progressive pneumoconiosis in these miners was associated with exposure to coal mine dust containing high concentrations of respirable silica and silicates.

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Occupational and environmental lung diseases Occupational exposure and asthma Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis

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Published in: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volume 193, Issue 6, pp. 673-680

DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201505-1014oc

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