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The value of periodic spirometry for early recognition of long-term excessive lung function decline in individualsEva Hnizdo
Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, W Va 26505, USA
J Occup Environ Med 54:1506-12. 2012..To establish the value of workplace spirometry monitoring methods for early recognition of long-term excessive lung function decline in individuals...
The precision of longitudinal lung function measurements: monitoring and interpretationE Hnizdo
Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
Occup Environ Med 62:695-701. 2005..The efficacy of decision making based on longitudinal spirometric measurements depends critically on the precision of the available data, which is determined by the magnitude of the within-person variation...
Periodic spirometry in occupational setting: improving quality, accuracy, and precisionEva Hnizdo
Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
J Occup Environ Med 53:1205-9. 2011..Effectiveness of periodic spirometry in medical monitoring depends on spirometry quality. We describe an intervention on spirometry quality and its impact on accuracy and precision of longitudinal measurements...
Worksite wellness program for respiratory disease prevention in heavy-construction workersEva Hnizdo
Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
J Occup Environ Med 53:274-81. 2011..To describe a respiratory disease prevention program in a US heavy-construction company...
Longitudinal limits of normal decline in lung function in an individualEva Hnizdo
Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505, USA
J Occup Environ Med 48:625-34. 2006....
Limits of longitudinal decline for the interpretation of annual changes in FEV1 in individualsEva Hnizdo
Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
Occup Environ Med 64:701-7. 2007..They then derived programme- and gender-specific absolute and relative LLD values and validated these against the 95th percentiles for observed yearly changes in FEV1...
Case definitions for chronic obstructive pulmonary diseaseEva Hnizdo
Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505, USA
COPD 3:95-100. 2006..In conclusion, using the FEV1/FVC < 0.70 criterion will substantially under-diagnose airway obstruction in younger individuals and substantially over-diagnose COPD in older individuals...
Pooled exposure-response analyses and risk assessment for lung cancer in 10 cohorts of silica-exposed workers: an IARC multicentre studyK Steenland
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, USA
Cancer Causes Control 12:773-84. 2001..We have conducted a pooled exposure-response analysis of 10 silica-exposed cohorts to investigate lung cancer...
Workplace spirometry monitoring for respiratory disease prevention: a methods reviewE Hnizdo
Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, West Virginia, USA
Int J Tuberc Lung Dis 14:796-805. 2010..Applications in ongoing computerized spirometry monitoring programs are described that demonstrate approaches to improving spirometry data precision and quality, and facilitating informed decision-making on disease prevention...
Correlation between autopsy findings for chronic obstructive airways disease and in-life disability in South African gold minersE Hnizdo
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV 26505 2845, USA
Int Arch Occup Environ Health 73:235-44. 2000....
Assessment of reliability of lung function screening programs or longitudinal studiesE Hnizdo
National Center for Occupational Health, Johannesburg, South Africa
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 160:2006-11. 1999....
Lung function prediction equations derived from healthy South African gold minersE Hnizdo
National Centre for Occupational Health, Johannesburg 2000, South Africa
Occup Environ Med 57:698-705. 2000..To estimate lung function prediction equations and to identify appropriate normal reference values for the population of about 250 000 of South African gold miners...
Prevalence of asthma by industry in the US population: a study of 2001 NHIS dataKi Moon Bang
Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, CDC, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505, USA
Am J Ind Med 47:500-8. 2005..This study was undertaken to estimate the US prevalence of asthma in adults by industry of employment and to identify industries with elevated risk of asthma...
New-onset asthma associated with exposure to 3-amino-5-mercapto-1,2,4-triazoleEva Hnizdo
Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
J Occup Environ Med 46:1246-52. 2004..The authors conducted an investigation of a cluster of eight new-onset asthma cases identified in a chemical plant through the Sentinel Event Notification Systems for Occupational Risks (SENSOR) program...
Airflow obstruction attributable to work in industry and occupation among U.S. race/ethnic groups: a study of NHANES III dataEva Hnizdo
Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, West Virginia 26505, USA
Am J Ind Med 46:126-35. 2004..To estimate the fraction of airflow obstruction attributable to workplace exposure by U.S. race/ethnic group...
Association between chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and employment by industry and occupation in the US population: a study of data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination SurveyEva Hnizdo
Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
Am J Epidemiol 156:738-46. 2002..The fraction of COPD attributable to work was estimated as 19.2% overall and 31.1% among never smokers...
Decline in lung function and mortality: implications for medical monitoringKanta Sircar
National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
Occup Environ Med 64:461-6. 2007..To investigate the risk of death associated with selected cut-off points for rate of decline of forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV(1))...
Risk of silicosis in cohorts of Chinese tin and tungsten miners and pottery workers (II): Workplace-specific silica particle surface compositionJ Harrison
Health Effects Laboratory Division, US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
Am J Ind Med 48:10-5. 2005..Using these surface analysis results resolves differences in risk when exposure is normalized to cumulative respirable surface-available silica dust...
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease due to occupational exposure to silica dust: a review of epidemiological and pathological evidenceE Hnizdo
Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505, USA
Occup Environ Med 60:237-43. 2003....
Effect of occupational exposures on decline of lung function in early chronic obstructive pulmonary diseasePhilip Harber
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at University of California, Los Angeles, California 90024, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 176:994-1000. 2007..Several occupational exposures adversely affect lung function...
COPD and occupational exposures: a case-control studySheila Weinmann
Center for Health Research, Kaiser Permanente Northwest, Portland, Oregon 97227, USA
J Occup Environ Med 50:561-9. 2008..This case-control study evaluated the association between occupational exposures and prevalent COPD based on lifetime occupational history...
Spray-painting and chronic airways obstructionHenry W Glindmeyer
Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118, USA
Am J Ind Med 46:104-11. 2004..The aim was to investigate the respiratory response of HDI-based paint aerosol within the context of the protection afforded by current exposure guidelines...
Longitudinal decline in lung function: evaluation of interleukin-10 genetic polymorphisms in firefightersJefferey L Burgess
University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
J Occup Environ Med 46:1013-22. 2004..Evaluation of gene polymorphisms regulating lung inflammation may help to explain some of the variation in rate of decline in lung function in firefighters...
Definition of COPD GOLD stage IEdward L Petsonk
Thorax 62:1107-8; author reply 1108-9. 2007
Development of quantitative exposure data for a pooled exposure-response analysis of 10 silica cohortsKyle Steenland
Unit of Environmental Cancer Epidemiology, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France
Am J Ind Med 42:73-86. 2002..The difficulties encountered in deriving common exposure estimates across cohorts are discussed...
Risk of silicosis in cohorts of Chinese tin and tungsten miners, and pottery workers (I): an epidemiological studyW Chen
Department of Labor Health and Occupational Diseases, Tongji Medical College, School of Public Health, Hang Kong Lu, Wuhan, Hubei, People's Republic of China
Am J Ind Med 48:1-9. 2005..CONCLUSION: The observed differences in the risk of silicosis among the three cohorts suggest that silica dust characteristics, in addition to cumulative respirable silica dust exposure, may affect the risk of silicosis...
