ArticleAmerican journal of industrial medicine2022
Sarcoidosis in Northern Ontario hard-rock miners: A case series.
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- Occupational exposures and sarcoidosis: a rapid review of the evidence.Occupational medicine (Oxford, England) · 2024Article
- Elevated Levels of the Cancer Marker Neuron-Specific Enolase in a Patient With Coexisting Silicosis and Sarcoidosis.Cureus · 2024Article
- The High-Throughput In Vitro CometChip Assay for the Analysis of Metal Oxide Nanomaterial Induced DNA Damage.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Sarcoidosis in Northern Ontario hard-rock miners: A case series.American journal of industrial medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
Sarcoidosis is a rare multisystem granulomatous disease traditionally considered to be of unknown etiology. The notion that sarcoidosis has no known cause is called into question with the increasing number of case reports and epidemiologic studies showing associations between occupational exposures and disease published in the past 10-20 years. Occupational exposures for which associations are strongest and most consistent are silica and other inorganic dusts, World Trade Center (WTC) dust, and metals. Occupations identified as at-risk for sarcoidosis include construction workers; iron-foundry and diatomaceous earth workers; WTC emergency responders; and metal workers. We report here 12 cases of sarcoidosis in a cohort of hard-rock miners in Northern Ontario, Canada. To our knowledge sarcoidosis has not been reported previously in hard-rock miners. The cases are all male and Caucasian, with average age 74 years. At the time of diagnosis, two were never smokers; six, former smokers; and four, current smokers. Five have extrapulmonary sarcoidosis: two cardiac and three endocrine (hypercalciuria). Using occupational histories and air sampling data from the gold, uranium, and base-metal mines in which they worked, we examined exposure of each case to respirable crystalline silica (RCS). The annual mean RCS exposure for the 12 cases was 0.14 mg/m
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