Asbestos or Ferruginous Bodies
- 27 February 1969
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 280 (9) , 488-492
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm196902272800907
Abstract
THE health hazards of asbestos have been recognized for 40 years. Nevertheless, the problems of asbestos pneumoconiosis (asbestosis) and asbestos-related neoplasms have increased alarmingly despite much improved dust control.1 This is because of a rapidly rising use of asbestos and because of an ever larger variety of asbestos-containing products, which are often used without awareness of their composition and under poor supervision.2 In our laboratory in New England some 35 different occupations ranging from cigarette-filter manufacturing to wire braiding have been incriminated. Community "asbestos air pollution" is being recognized only now, and its importance is uncertain. Increasingly, practicing physicians are . . .Keywords
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