Chronic beryllium disease in a precious metal refinery: clinical epidemiologic and immunologic evidence for continuing risk from exposure to low level beryllium fume

MR Cullen, JR Kominsky, MD Rossman… - … Respiratory Disease, 1987 - atsjournals.org
… decline in the incidence of the disease. A second major finding … chronic beryllium disease
in workers exposed to concentrations of beryllium apparently below the permissible exposure

Chronic beryllium disease: risk from low-level exposure

CA Redlich, LS Welch - American journal of respiratory and critical …, 2008 - atsjournals.org
… of risk associated with lower levels of occupational beryllium exposure as well as risk from
residential exposure. The authors feel confident that workplace exposure was unlikely in …

Chronic beryllium disease and sensitization at a beryllium processing facility

K Rosenman, V Hertzberg, C Rice… - Environmental …, 2005 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
… Safety and Health Administration workplace air level of 2 μg/m 3 … chronic beryllium disease
(CBD) occurred after both high and low levels of exposure and hypothesized that the disease

Chronic beryllium disease: update on a moving target

MG MacMurdo, MM Mroz, DA Culver, RA Dweik… - Chest, 2020 - Elsevier
exposure limit (PEL) for beryllium in 1971, our understanding of the risks of beryllium sensitization
and chronic beryllium disease (… reduced the PEL for beryllium, increased requirements …

Genetic and exposure risks for chronic beryllium disease

LA Maier - Clinics in chest medicine, 2002 - chestmed.theclinics.com
beryllium disease (CBD). With reductions in exposure in the workplace, acute beryllium disease
… and immunologic evidence for continuing risk from exposure to low level beryllium fume. …

Beryllium exposure and chronic beryllium disease

PF Infante, LS Newman - The Lancet, 2004 - thelancet.com
… PFI testified as a “fact witness” for a plaintiff a year ago on OSHA's knowledge about levels
of exposure associated with chronic beryllium disease in the 1970s. Travel expenses and a …

Exposure and genetics increase risk of beryllium sensitisation and chronic beryllium disease in the nuclear weapons industry

MV Van Dyke, JW Martyny, MM Mroz… - Occupational and …, 2011 - oem.bmj.com
beryllium sensitisation (BeS) and chronic beryllium disease (CBD). The risk of BeS and CBD
varies by workplace and likely by exposure level… studies of beryllium-exposed workforces.1 …

Chronic beryllium disease: uncommon disease, less common diagnosis.

DC Middleton - Environmental health perspectives, 1998 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
… resultedfrom what appeared to be a brief, low-level exposure; this report suggested that
although … risk from exposure to low level beryllium fume. Am Rev Respir Dis 135:201-208 (1987). …

Beryllium sensitization progresses to chronic beryllium disease: a longitudinal study of disease risk

LS Newman, MM Mroz, R Balkissoon… - American journal of …, 2005 - atsjournals.org
… ethnicity, smoking status, or beryllium exposure time between those who progressed to
chronic beryllium disease and those who remained sensitized without disease. We conclude that …

Progression from beryllium exposure to chronic beryllium disease: an analytic model

P Harber, S Bansal, J Balmes - Environmental health …, 2009 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Beryllium sensitization and chronic beryllium disease at a former nuclear weapons facility.
Appl Occup Environ Hyg 16:405-417 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11297055. …