Pulmonary effects of firefighting.
The authors examine the acute and chronic effects of exposure to smoke among firefighters and look at mortality studies for the risk of death due to nonmalignant respiratory disease and lung cancer.
Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA.
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D000208:Acute Disease; D002908:Chronic Disease; D005390:Fires; D006801:Humans; D008171:Lung Diseases / Q000209:etiology* / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology; D011379:Prognosis; D015208:Smoke Inhalation Injury / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000503:physiopathology*; D015996:Survival Rate