ReviewJournal of occupational and environmental medicine2014
Respiratory disorders in aluminum smelter workers.
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- Systematic review of potential health risks posed by pharmaceutical, occupational and consumer exposures to metallic and nanoscale aluminum, aluminum oxides, aluminum hydroxide and its soluble salts.Critical reviews in toxicology · 2014Pooled it
- Heavy Metal Air Pollution: Human Health Effects and Nanomaterial Strategies for Monitoring and Remediation.Biological trace element research · 2026Review
- Sulfur Dioxide- and Fluoride-Associated Declines in Lung Function Over an 11-Year Observation Among Aluminum Smelter Workers.American journal of industrial medicine · 2025Article
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- Impact of welding occupation on serum aluminium level and its association with physical health, cognitive function, and quality of life: a cross-sectional study.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2024Article
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- Multi-Elemental Analysis of Human Optic Chiasm-A New Perspective to Reveal the Pathomechanism of Nerve Fibers' Degeneration.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- High-Dose Aluminum Exposure Further Alerts Immune Phenotype in Aplastic Anemia Patients.Biological trace element research · 2021Article
- Biochemical, histological, and neuro-physiological effects of long-term aluminum chloride exposure in rats.Metabolic brain disease · 2021Article
- Cancer and noncancer mortality among aluminum smelting workers in Badin, North Carolina.American journal of industrial medicine · 2020Article
- Aluminium toxicosis: a review of toxic actions and effects.Interdisciplinary toxicology · 2019Review
- Pulmonary fluorosis: a review.Environmental science and pollution research international · 2017Review
- Occupational and environmental health in the aluminum industry: key points for health practitioners.Journal of occupational and environmental medicine · 2014Review
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Abstract
objectivesSummarizing the knowledge status, including the morphology, possible etiological factors, and clinical expression of aluminum potroom asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease related to aluminum potroom exposure.
methodsA review of the literature from the last two decades as it appears in PubMed.
resultsThere is substantial evidence for the existence of potroom asthma, although the incidence seems to decline over the last 10 years. Increased mortality from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and longitudinal decline in forced expiratory volume in the first second of expiration has been shown in aluminum potroom workers. Morphological manifestations in bronchial biopsies and the inflammatory markers NO and eosinophils in airway tissue and blood are consistent with asthma in general. The causative agent(s) is (are) not known.
conclusionsReduction of exposure and cessation of smoking seem to be the major preventive measures to avoid respiratory disorders in the aluminum industry.
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