Exercise testing in occupational lung diseases.
The authors discuss the value of exercise testing in two areas of importance in occupational pulmonary disease: (1) the surveillance of worker populations in order to gain epidemiologic and physiologic understanding of disease and (2) the assessment of work capacity in individual patients.
D001195:Asbestosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D005080:Exercise Test; D006801:Humans; D008168:Lung / Q000503:physiopathology; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008306:Malingering / Q000175:diagnosis; D008875:Middle Aged; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009790:Occupations; D011653:Pulmonary Diffusing Capacity; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests; D012829:Silicosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D014938:Work Capacity Evaluation