… Chronic beryllium disease can be identified in both current and former beryllium workers …
Individuals must be sensitised to beryllium before chronic beryllium disease develops. Between …

… workers … temporary workers) or otherwise had prior beryllium exposure, we also limited the
study population to those with no work onsite prior to 1 January 1993 or any known beryllium …

… The sixty patients with chronic beryllium disease in this study … A rapid turnover of workers,
especially women, may also have … brief war-time employment did their disease often develop. …

… screening for beryllium disease of 577 former workers from a beryllium processing facility. …
included that the individual a) had only worked for a short time; b) felt he or she was too old …

… a short period of exposure, but beryllium disease usually … The long-term workers classified
as having beryllium disease … The one short-term worker considered to have beryllium disease …

… Stepwise progression from beryllium exposure to chronic beryllium disease. Between 134,000
and 800,000 workers are exposed to beryllium in the workplace within the United States. …

… about beryllium sensitization (BeS) and chronic beryllium disease (CBD). … workers exposed
to high levels of soluble forms of beryllium; however, the distribution of the chronic disease …

… from which they recovered completely, and one developed chronic beryllium disease
after a further 23 years' exposure. In subjects without clinical or radiographic evidence of …

… chronic beryllium disease among a stratified, random sample (n = 895) of nuclear weapons
workers using the blood beryllium … cases of beryllium sensitization, 12 had beryllium disease, …

… ] that documented cases of skin and lung disease in beryllium workers. Subsequently, cases
of acute pneumonitis were noted in the United States in beryllium manufacturing workers [ …