title: [Review from the scientific paper about the main respiratory diseases in metallurgical workers].
abstract: The review of main scientific investigations about the work related diseases in metallurgy shows that the most studied pathologies regards lung cancer and pneumoconiosis, other cancers and cardiovascular diseases. These evidences are not univocal and have been and are critically evaluated due to the complexity and articulated structure of metals production which makes it very difficult to compare the risks and diseases among the different metallurgical activities and, in the same activity, among the different job tasks. In addition, due to the technological and organizational evolution investigations, appear to be necessary to better define the specific hazards (for example metal species, PAH and PoPs mixtures) and to put into a correct relation these and pathologies diagnosed by health surveillance procedures or epidemiological surveys, surely different from those of past decades.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Medicina Sperimentale e Applicata, Sezione di Medicina del Lavoro e Igiene Industriale, Università degli Studi di Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Apostoli
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Catalani
authors.forename: I
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Cortesi
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D006801:Humans; D008669:Metallurgy; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012120:Respiration Disorders