Epidemiology of beryllium sensitization and disease in nuclear workers

K Kreiss, MM Mroz, B Zhen, JW Martyny… - American Review of …, 1993 - atsjournals.org
… the epidemiology of beryllium disease in population-based screening. We report here a
cross-sectional study of beryllium workers in a nuclear weapons plant where beryllium exposure …

Risk of chronic beryllium disease by HLA-DPB1 E69 genotype and beryllium exposure in nuclear workers

MV Van Dyke, JW Martyny, MM Mroz… - American journal of …, 2011 - atsjournals.org
… In manufacturing nuclear weapons, workers at US and international facilities have been …
to beryllium aerosols. A subset of these workers have developed beryllium sensitization (BeS) …

Beryllium sensitization and disease among long-term and short-term workers in a beryllium ceramics plant

PK Henneberger, D Cumro, DD Deubner… - International archives of …, 2001 - Springer
… Objective: Workers at a beryllium ceramics plant were tested for beryllium sensitization and
… In a case-control study of beryllium-exposed workers at a nuclear weapons facility [18], the …

Beryllium sensitization and chronic beryllium disease at a former nuclear weapons facility

AW Stange, DE Hilmas, FJ Furman… - Applied occupational …, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
… The potential for exposure to beryllium and for the development of beryllium sensitization
at Rocky Flats where beryllium workers were stationed or where beryllium operations occurred …

Risk of beryllium sensitization in a low‐exposed former nuclear weapons cohort from the cold war era

MA Mikulski, SA Leonard… - American journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
… This report presents findings of federally mandated screenings for beryllium sensitization
among former DOE workers employed at a single weapons assembly plant in the Midwest. This …

Beryllium sensitization and lung function among former workers at the Nevada Test Site

EG Rodrigues, MD McClean… - American journal of …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
… testing former workers of the NTS for beryllium sensitization (BeS) … workers involved in the
decontamination of buildings at a nuclear weapons facility, 0.8% were sensitized to beryllium

Prevalence of beryllium sensitization among Department of Defense conventional munitions workers at low risk for exposure

MA Mikulski, WT Sanderson, SA Leonard… - … of occupational and …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
… Grinding and reshaping of tools were also found to have been the main source of exposure
to beryllium in DoE nuclear weapons operations on site 31 ; machinists, millwrights, and tool-…

Beryllium disease among construction trade workers at Department of Energy nuclear sites

LS Welch, K Ringen, J Dement… - American journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
… on the prevalence of beryllium sensitization among these construction workers. Here we …
of chronic beryllium disease among the workers with beryllium sensitization. This updated …

Reversible beryllium sensitization in a prospective study of beryllium workers

WN Rom, JE Lockey, KM Bang, C DeWitt… - Archives of …, 1983 - Taylor & Francis
… that beryllium sensitizationberyllium sensitization as measured by LT may reverse. Thus
our results may be fortuitous because following the first survey which showed 15% sensitization

Chronic beryllium disease and sensitization at a beryllium processing facility

K Rosenman, V Hertzberg, C Rice… - Environmental …, 2005 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
… screening for beryllium disease of 577 former workers from a beryllium processing facility. The
Beryllium sensitization and chronic beryllium disease at a former nuclear weapons facility. …