[Malignant diseases of the respiratory organs caused by asbestos exposure in municipal environment].
Exposure of population to asbestos comes from several origins. It is proved by measuring of asbestos emission and by discoveries of asbestos emission and by discoveries of asbestos fibres in lungs of adults. Asbestos induced maladies are not only founded after professional exposition, but also sometimes after domestic asbestos contacts or in neighbours of asbestos processing firms (generally upon a long time past influence of asbestos holding emissions). There is no evidence for an increase of the frequency of asbestos induced cancer in the inhabitants of large towns and industrial centres of GDR, till now. Morbific effects of asbestos must be expected in special risk groups. All efforts are necessary to reduce asbestos in known dust touched spheres.
D000397:Air Pollution; D001194:Asbestos / Q000009:adverse effects*; D001195:Asbestosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D004787:Environmental Pollution; D005859:Germany, East; D006801:Humans; D012142:Respiratory Tract Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology*; D012306:Risk; D014505:Urban Population
D001194:Asbestos
Maligne Erkrankungen der Atmungsorgane durch Asbestbelastung im kommunalen Bereich.