Physical Activity of Occupation and Cigarette Smoking

Blackburn, Henry; Hl, Taylor; Rw, Parlin; Kihlberg, J; Keys, Ancel

doi:10.1080/00039896.1965.10664002

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“…In a longitudinal study over five years of 871 iron ore miners aged between 35 and 55 years, Pham et al 4 found a more pronounced decrease in pulmonary function in underground miners who were still active in comparison with those who had retired. Nevertheless, contrary to our study, the values of FVC and FEV, were slightly superior to their predicted values.…”

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Lung function in retired coke oven plant workers.

Chau¹,

Bertrand²,

Guenzi³

et al. 1992

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

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Lung function was studied in 354 coke oven plant workers in the Lorraine collieries (Houilleres du Bassin de Lorraine, France) who retired between 1963 and 1982 The aim of this work was to study the long term effect of occupational exposure on lung function in retired coke oven workers from the HBL. This work is part of a study on mortality and morbidity in survivors.'7 It continues a previous study carried out in 1983 on mortality which showed an excess of mortality from lung cancer (standardised mortality ratio (SMR) = 2 51) with reference to the French male population.'8 Material and methodsThe study sample consisted of all the male workers from the two coke oven plants who had retired between 1 January 1963 and 31 December 1982 (536 subjects) and who were still alive on 1 January 1988 (354 subjects). They were born between 1902 and 1935. Executives were excluded from the study.The subjects were asked to attend a medical examination at the firm's occupational health centre. The protocol included a standard questionnaire, conducted by the occupational physician, concerning diseases treated or followed up for more than five years (cardiovascular, respiratory, digestive, infectious, and psychiatric diseases, traumas, cancers, etc), the questionnaire for the study of chronic bronchitis and pulmonary emphysema of the European Steel and Coal Commission (ECSC) of the EC,'9 and the notion of "regular overconsumption" of alcoholic drink. Because of low numbers we did not distinguish between smokers and ex-smokers. The respiratory symptoms taken into account were chronic bronchitis defined by a daily cough and phlegm for three consecutive months each year over a period of two years, wheezing or chest noises heard daily, day and night, and dyspnoea classified into five stages.To be aware of the respiratory symptoms in the period nearing retirement we sought information 316 on 12 May 2018 by guest. Protected by copyright.

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Lung function in retired coke oven plant workers.

Chau¹,

Bertrand²,

Guenzi³

et al. 1992

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

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“…The expected influence of cigarette smoking is to decrease lung function indices (Hensler & Giron 1963;Cotes 1965;Blackburn et al 1965;Lundm an 1966;H uhti 19 of Physicians 1971). No decrease was observed in this study in f.e.v.…”

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IV. Spirometric studies of Yemenite and Kurdish Jews in Israel

Lourie

1973

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B

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Measurements have been made of forced expiratory volume (f.e.v.) and forced vital capacity (f.v.c.) in two groups of rural Israeli Jews aged 20 to 30, born in the Yemen and in Kurdistan. The Jews from Kurdistan had a significantly higher f.e.v. and f.v.c. than the Jews from the Yemen, but there was no difference in the f.e.v. % ratio. These differences were not accounted for by differences between the groups in age, nor entirely by morphological differences. The pattern of correlations with anthropometric variables suggested that in the Jews from the Yemen the lung function values were related to linearity rather than to body bulk, while in the Jews from Kurdistan they were better correlated with overall size and mass of the body. f.e.v. and f.v.c. were elevated in smokers compared to non-smokers, possibly owing to an increased respiratory effort to cope with a reduction in the f.e.v. % ratio.

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Der Einfluß der außerberuflichen körperlichen Aktivität und des Zigarettenrauchens auf die Vitalkapazität und das Sekundenstoß-Volumen

Kuhn¹

1967

Z. Prāventivmed

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Physical Activity of Occupation and Cigarette Smoking

Cited by 9 publications

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Lung function in retired coke oven plant workers.

Lung function in retired coke oven plant workers.

IV. Spirometric studies of Yemenite and Kurdish Jews in Israel

Der Einfluß der außerberuflichen körperlichen Aktivität und des Zigarettenrauchens auf die Vitalkapazität und das Sekundenstoß-Volumen

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