title: Report of the Workshop on Environmentally Related Nononcogenic Lung Disease. March 13-18, 1983, Airlie Conference Center, Airlie, Virginia.
abstract: During the week of March 13-18, 1983, 37 government and university health scientists participated in the Workshop on Environmentally Related Nononcogenic Lung Disease. The workshop, which was chaired by James L. Whittenberger of the University of California's Southern Occupational Health Center with Dr. Robert Frank of Johns Hopkins University, cochairman, represented a major effort by the interagency Task Force on Environmental Cancer and Heart and Lung Disease to address in fiscal year 1983 its mandate to assess current evidence and recommend integrated federal research programs toward relating human illness with environmental pollution. The subject of nononcogenic lung disease was approached through three concurrent discussion sessions: epidemiology, statistics, and risk assessment; clinical research; and basic and animal research. Participants were assigned to one of the three group sessions, based on their backgrounds and interests, but were encouraged to interact and attend the other sessions. Each session produced an immediate set of recommendations on research needs, complete with background information and literature references. In compiling this report on the workshop findings, the sets of recommendations were consolidated to avoid duplication, and the text was condensed to ensure that each argument and rationale was presented cogently. This lengthy and laborious process, which required careful review and critical analysis, was undertaken by the workshop chairmen, the session chairmen, and finally the participants. The result is a document that, it is hoped, both accurately reflects the current state of knowledge on environmentally related nononcogenic lung disease and adequately responds to the Task Force's mandate. The views expressed are those of the participating scientists and should not be construed to represent any official agency position.
mesh_terms: D000393:Air Pollutants / Q000032:analysis; D000818:Animals; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D004391:Dust / Q000009:adverse effects; D004785:Environmental Pollutants / Q000378:metabolism / Q000633:toxicity*; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008168:Lung / Q000187:drug effects / Q000502:physiology; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D008173:Lung Diseases, Obstructive / Q000209:etiology; D012306:Risk; D012907:Smoking
chemical_list: D000393:Air Pollutants; D004391:Dust; D004785:Environmental Pollutants