title: [The occupational spectrum in alveolitis and pulmonary fibrosis].
abstract: The professional spectrum was analysed in 898 patients with ascertained alveolitides and lung fibroses. Most frequent were fibroses in occupations from agriculture and forestry (167 = 18.6%). Then followed workers in metal (119 = 13.3%), commerce and supply (69 = 7.7%), transport (46 = 5.1%), economic management (46 = 5.1%), building trade (42 = 4.7%) and textile workers (34 = 3.8%). The proportion of the other professional branches was lower than 3.5%. Close connections between disease and profession were seen in the employees in agriculture. The group is formed above all by farmer's lungs (exposure against hay, straw, pellets, corn, fruit, vegetables and so on) and bird-fanciers' lungs. In the other professional groups the rate of the etiologically clarified cases is essentially smaller. Particularly the metal branches are a centre for further investigations.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Lungenkrankheiten und Tuberkulose, Zentralklinik für Herz- und Lungenkrankheiten Bad Berka.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Liebertrau
mesh_terms: D000542:Alveolitis, Extrinsic Allergic / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D011009:Pneumoconiosis / Q000209:etiology*; D011658:Pulmonary Fibrosis / Q000209:etiology*; D012307:Risk Factors
vernacular_title: Berufsspektrum bei Alveolitiden und Lungenfibrosen.