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ReviewEuropean respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society2017

Current and new challenges in occupational lung diseases.

Sara De Matteis, Dick Heederik, Alex Burdorf, Claudio Colosio, Paul Cullinan, Paul K Henneberger, Ann Olsson, Anne Raynal, Jos Rooijackers, Tiina Santonen and 5 more

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Review in European respiratory review : an official journal of the European Respiratory Society, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

51 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

  1. Unveiling Urinary Mutagenicity by the Ames Test for Occupational Risk Assessment: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

15 authors.

Sara De MatteisRespiratory Epidemiology, Occupational Medicine and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK s.de-matteis@imperial.ac.uk.
Dick HeederikInstitute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Alex BurdorfDept of Public Health, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
Claudio ColosioDept of Health Sciences of the University of Milan and International Centre for Rural Health of the S. Paolo Hospital, Milan, Italy.
Paul CullinanRespiratory Epidemiology, Occupational Medicine and Public Health, Imperial College London, London, UK.
Paul K HennebergerRespiratory Health Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, WV, USA.
Ann OlssonInternational Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France.
Anne RaynalOccupational Medicine Division, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.
Jos RooijackersNetherlands Expertise Center for Occupational Respiratory Disorders, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Tiina SantonenFinnish Institute of Occupational Health, Helsinki, Finland.
Joaquin SastreAllergy Service, Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, Faculty of Medicine Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, CIBER of Respiratory Diseases, Ministry of Economy, Madrid, Spain.
Vivi SchlünssenDept of Public Health, Section of Environment, Occupation and Health, Danish Ramazzini Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
Martie van TongerenCentre for Occupational and Environmental Health; Centre for Epidemiology; Division of Population Health, Health Services Research and Primary Care; School of Health Sciences; Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK.
Torben SigsgaardDept of Public Health, Section of Environment, Occupation and Health, Danish Ramazzini Centre, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
European Respiratory Society Environment and Health Committee

Funding

Intramural CDC HHS CC999999World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Occupational lung diseases are an important public health issue and are avoidable through preventive interventions in the workplace. Up-to-date knowledge about changes in exposure to occupational hazards as a result of technological and industrial developments is essential to the design and implementation of efficient and effective workplace preventive measures. New occupational agents with unknown respiratory health effects are constantly introduced to the market and require periodic health surveillance among exposed workers to detect early signs of adverse respiratory effects. In addition, the ageing workforce, many of whom have pre-existing respiratory conditions, poses new challenges in terms of the diagnosis and management of occupational lung diseases. Primary preventive interventions aimed to reduce exposure levels in the workplace remain pivotal for elimination of the occupational lung disease burden. To achieve this goal there is still a clear need for setting standard occupational exposure limits based on transparent evidence-based methodology, in particular for carcinogens and sensitising agents that expose large working populations to risk. The present overview, focused on the occupational lung disease burden in Europe, proposes directions for all parties involved in the prevention of occupational lung disease, from researchers and occupational and respiratory health professionals to workers and employers.

Indexed as

Occupational HealthAir Pollutants, OccupationalEarly DiagnosisEnvironmental MonitoringEuropeHumansLungLung DiseasesOccupational DiseasesOccupational ExposurePrognosisRisk AssessmentRisk FactorsAir Pollutants, Occupational

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PMID29141963
PMCPMC6033059

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