Source: Annual Congress 2002 - Asbestos and silica
Disease area: Airway diseases

Abstract

STUDY OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to assess morbidity, abnormalities of respiratory function test and blood gas analysis among subjects exposed to the asbestic dust. METHOD: 122 adult individuals have been included into the study until now. The project is still ongoing and the next group of 100 subjects is being prepared for inclusion. The following data were collected: demographic questionnaires (eg. period of exposure to the asbestic dust, tobacco smoking), physical examination, respiratory function test and blood gas analysis performed before and after physical exercise. RESULTS: Participants were 49 adults smokers and 73 former smokers. The medium asbestic dust exposure period was 16 years. Among participants, 48 classified dust concentration as very high, 41 as high, 13 as moderate, 5 as mild and 12 were not able to classify dust concentration. The protective face masks were used in those groups by 19, 11, 2, 0, 2 participants respectively. Bronchial asthma was diagnosed in two subjects and COPD in ten. On physical examination no significant abnormality was found in 104 participants. The examination of the larynx revealed abnormal findings, mostly related to smoking, in 73 subjects. Hipoxemia were noted in 25 patients on resting blood gas tests and in 12 patients on exercise blood gas tests. None of those tests showed hipercapnia in study population. Resting respiratory function tests were abnormal in 10 subjects (obturation: 3 pts and restriction: 7 pts). Both tests did not reveal any significant difference related to the duration of smoking or asbestic exposure.

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J. Serafinski, A. Doboszynska, A. Siemieniuk, B. Bogumil, H. Trybuch-Ronisz (Warsaw, Poland). Spirometry and gasometrical examination in healthy subjects exposed to contact with asbestos. Eur Respir J 2002; 20: Suppl. 38, 843

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