Authors: Z. Hajduková 1; I. Macháček 1; Z. Kubinyiová 1; J. Slepička 1; J. Havlásková 1; V. Kosek 2 Authors‘ workplace: Klinika chorob z povolání FNsP, Ostrava-Poruba, přednostka MUDr. Zdeňka Hajduková 2Oddělení zdravotnických informací a analýz FNsP Ostrava-Poruba, přednostka MUDr. Zdeňka Hajduková 1 Published in: Pracov. Lék., , 2004, No. 3, s. 124-129. Category:
The objective of the paper is to review the impact of coal mine dust exposure on airways in coal miners. 2036 former coal minerswhere examined at the Clinic of Occupational Diseases at Ostrava University Hospital in 2002 and 2003. Their average age was60 years. They have been out of the dust exposure for nearly 16 years. They were exposed to the respirable coal mine dust on theaverage of 23.5 years. One half of the cohort includes never smoking miners (N = 1025) and the second half of the cohort includesformer or present long-term smoking miners (N = 1011). The significant difference was found between smokers and non-smokers (P
Key words: chronic bronchitis, COPD and airway hyperreactivity, coal-miners
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