Occupational Exposure to Dusts, Gases, and Fumes and Incidence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in the Swiss Cohort Study on Air Pollution and Lung and Heart Diseases in Adults

2012188 citationsJournal Article

Authors

Amar Mehta · Harvard University

David Miedinger · University Hospital of Basel

Dirk Keidel · Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute

Robert Bettschart · Hirslanden Klinik Aarau

Andreas J. Bircher · University Hospital of Basel

Pierre‐Olivier Bridevaux · University Hospital of Geneva

Ivan Curjuric

Abstract

In a Swiss working adult population, occupational exposures to biological dusts, mineral dusts, gases/fumes, and VGDF were associated with incidence of COPD of at least moderate severity.

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Air Quality and Health Impacts Occupational and environmental lung diseases Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research

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Published in: American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine

Volume 185, Issue 12, pp. 1292-1300

DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201110-1917oc

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Occupational Exposure to Dusts, Gases, and Fumes and Incidence of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in the Swiss Cohort Study on Air Pollution and Lung and Heart Diseases in Adults

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