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Workplace exposures to hazardous materials cause or aggravate diseases as common and diverse as asthma, cancer, dermatitis, and tuberculosis.¹ Crude estimates of the number of new cases of occupational disease in the United States range from 125,000 to 350,000 per year,^2,3,4 in addition to 5.3 million work-related injuries. The economic cost is estimated to exceed $60 billion annually.^2,5,6,7 Occupational disorders occur in industry and agriculture, both as underrecognized endemic diseases and in sporadic epidemics. With modernization, occupational hazards have shifted from factories and mines to include hospitals and office buildings.

Patients perceive industrial toxins as threatening their health and safety.⁸ . . . [Full Text of this Article]

The Occupational and Environmental History

The Occupational History and the Clinical Assessment

Learning More about Exposure

Biologic Markers

Clinical Management of Occupational Illness

Source Information

From the Occupational and Environmental Medicine Division and the Pulmonary Division, National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, and the Departments of Medicine and Preventive Medicine and Biometrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine — all in Denver.

Address reprint requests to Dr. Newman at Rm. D-104, National Jewish Center for Immunology and Respiratory Medicine, 1400 Jackson St., Denver, CO 80206.

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