Contemporary Concise Review 2023: Environmental and occupational lung diseases.
Kazuhiro YateraChinatsu NishidaPublished in: Respirology (Carlton, Vic.) (2024)
Air pollutants have various effects on human health in environmental and occupational settings. Air pollutants can be a risk factor for incidence, exacerbation/aggravation and death due to various lung diseases, including asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), hypersensitivity pneumonitis or pneumonia (HP), pulmonary fibrosis such as pneumoconiosis and malignant respiratory diseases such as lung cancer and malignant pleural mesothelioma. Environmental and occupational respiratory diseases are crucial clinical and social issues worldwide, although the burden of respiratory disease due to environmental and occupational causes varies depending on country/region, demographic variables, geographical location, industrial structure and socioeconomic situation. The correct recognition of environmental and occupational lung diseases and taking appropriate measures are essential to their effective prevention.
Keyphrases
- human health
- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- risk assessment
- lung function
- climate change
- heavy metals
- life cycle
- risk factors
- intensive care unit
- wastewater treatment
- systemic sclerosis
- extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- drug induced
- interstitial lung disease
- idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis
- mechanical ventilation