Abstract
The authors discuss the value of exercise testing in two areas of importance in occupational pulmonary disease: (1) the surveillance of worker populations in order to gain epidemiologic and physiologic understanding of disease and (2) the assessment of work capacity in individual patients.
Publication types
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Case Reports
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Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
MeSH terms
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Asbestosis / physiopathology
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Disability Evaluation*
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Exercise Test*
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Humans
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Lung / physiopathology
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Lung Diseases / physiopathology*
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Male
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Malingering / diagnosis
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Middle Aged
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Occupational Diseases / physiopathology*
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Occupations
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Pulmonary Diffusing Capacity
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Respiratory Function Tests*
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Silicosis / physiopathology
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Work Capacity Evaluation*