Berylliosis in a 56-year-old welder

A 56-year-old female presented to her family doctor with insidious shortness of breath that had progressed over several months, from exertional dyspnea to shortness of breath at rest. She had no fever, night sweats, weight loss nor hemoptysis, and was otherwise asymptomatic. At the time of presentation, her medical history included sleep apnea and a mood disorder, which was being treated with a serotonin–norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor. She had never smoked.</p

Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin and Coal Tar Creosote Exposure in a Railroad Worker-1

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin and Coal Tar Creosote Exposure in a Railroad Worker"</p><p>Environmental Health Perspectives 2004;113(1):96-97.</p><p>Published online 22 Nov 2004</p><p>PMCID:PMC1253716.</p><p>This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original DOI.</p

Association of inhaled corticosteroid usage with clinical parameters, airway responsiveness indices and HRQL scores.

<p>Note: *The values are given as the mean ± the standard deviation.</p

Pearson correlation coefficients between SF-36 scores and clinical and spirometric parameters [r (P value)].

<p>Pearson correlation coefficients between SF-36 scores and clinical and spirometric parameters [r (P value)].</p

Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin and Coal Tar Creosote Exposure in a Railroad Worker-0

<p><b>Copyright information:</b></p><p>Taken from "Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Skin and Coal Tar Creosote Exposure in a Railroad Worker"</p><p>Environmental Health Perspectives 2004;113(1):96-97.</p><p>Published online 22 Nov 2004</p><p>PMCID:PMC1253716.</p><p>This is an Open Access article: verbatim copying and redistribution of this article are permitted in all media for any purpose, provided this notice is preserved along with the article's original DOI.</p

Pearson correlation coefficients between the airway responsiveness indices and clinical and spirometric parameters [r (P value)].

<p>Pearson correlation coefficients between the airway responsiveness indices and clinical and spirometric parameters [r (P value)].</p

Comparison of SF-36 health-related quality of life scores according to the response to methacholine challenge test.

<p>Comparison of SF-36 health-related quality of life scores according to the response to methacholine challenge test.</p

Demographics and lung function (baseline and change from time of initial diagnosis with Western red cedar asthma).

*<p>10 subjects did not have PC₂₀ available from the time of initial diagnosis with Western red cedar asthma</p

Odds of increased respiratory impairment given various subject characteristics (race, atopic status and inhaled steroid use [n (%)]; age and lung function [mean (SD)]).

<p><i>Italics</i> depicts the 3 components of the impairment score.</p>*<p>Odds of being in IC 2/3 versus IC 0/1 with given characteristic, from logistic regression model with, in each analysis, adjustment for age (except for fevpp, where age is already incorporated, and for race, atopy, inhaled steroids) and years since last exposure (except for race, atopy, inhaled steroids).</p>**<p>p<0.05</p

Serum and sputum cytokines and sputum cell counts, stratified by impairment status.

*<p>Odds of being in IC 2/3 versus IC 0/1 from logistic regression model appropriate to each variable, each adjusted for age and years since last exposure.</p>**<p>p = 0.04.</p