Pulmonary functionality among workers of a Central Italy waste-to-energy plant: a retrospective study.

Luca CoppetaA PietroiustiS PolicardoF MormoneO BalbiE TursiS BaldiE PlutoniA TorrieroA Magrini

Published in: Journal of occupational medicine and toxicology (London, England) (2019)

Active employee in WTE plants is associated to a non-significant worsening in the main parameters of lung function after 5 years exposure. Clinical significant of these variations need to be assessed.

Keyphrases

pulmonary hypertension
heavy metals
cell wall
anaerobic digestion