Clinical data from 624 asbestos exposed workers were analysed by factor analysis. Fifteen
clinical variables were found to reflect several underlying factors:" obstruction,"" interstitial …

Asbestos related disease has assumed primacy in both public and professional concern
regarding occupationally generated disease. During the 1960s medical documenta-tion …

We performed a medical audit of an asbestos disease screening program offered to New
York City sheet metal workers by a corporate medical service. The screening program …

The relative power of sixteen clinical, radiological and pulmonary function variables for
evaluating asbestosis and chronic obstructive airway disease has been assessed by …

The term" asbestosis" usually has been applied to a disease characterized by diffuse
pulmonary interstitial fibrosis. It was often associated with a significant adverse impact on the …

This report presents data gathered from a series of asbestos disease screening
examinations of 9,605 United States sheet metal workers who were first employed in the …

THERE are three ways in which pulmonary function tests may contribute to the management
of workers exposed to asbestos; they may be used to confirm a diagnosis of asbestosis, to …

This article gives some data on workers at the BBA factory in Yorkshire who were certified as
suffering from asbestosis, 15 of them posthumously. The 32 cases certified since 1963 at the …

Since 1968, when the New South Wales Government passed the Workers' Compensation
(Dust Diseases) Act, workers who have been found to be suffering from a specified dust …

The article discusses the screening program for employees with developing asbestos-
related diseases in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The program was formulated by Lewis D …