Abstract

ROBAINA AGUIRRE, Caristina; CARRAZANA MADRIGAL, Milagro  and  YERAS ALOS, Isis. Evaluación del aparato respiratorio en trabajadores expuestos a polvo del mineral zeolita. Rev Cubana Med Gen Integr [online]. 1999, vol.15, n.3, pp. 298-302. ISSN 1561-3038.

A croos-sectional observational study was carried out at the mine-plant zeolite in Tasajeras, municipality of Ranchuelo, Villa Clara, from June to September, 1997, aimed at determining the clinical and functional ventilatory status of the workers. 73 patients with 2 or more years in the factory answered a questionnarie and underwent a physical examination and a functional ventilatory test. According to the results, those workers that were more exposed to dust had a higher number of respiratory symptoms, mainly smokers. However, 94,5 % had a negative chest physical examination. 68.8 % of the area patients with pathological functional ventilatory test work in the of the plant. 62.5 % are smokers and 63.1 % do not use frequently the respiratory filter as a menas of individual protection.

Keywords : RESPIRATORY FUNCITION TEST; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PERSONAL PROTECCION; NASAL OBSTRUCTION [etiology]; COUGH [etiology]; DYSPNEA [etiology]; ZEOLITES [adverse effects]; POWDERS [adverse effects]; SMOKING.

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