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When the dust settles, will pleural plaques be linked to gravel roads?
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When the dust settles, will pleural plaques be linked to gravel roads?
Wednesday 15 February 2023, 12:40 AM
A Northland GP wants to know whether breathing in road dust can cause pleural plaques [Image: Everaldo Brito on Pixabay]
Occupational health expert David McBride looks at respiratory diseases caused by occupational and environmental exposures, including a potential relationship between pleural plaques and road dust
Key points, Clusters of respiratory diseases have been identified in several workforces.
The fibres of asbestos and erionite are respirable and can cause pleura, Pract Green w Pale Yellow
References
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2. Halldin CN, Suarthana E, Fedan KB, et al. Increased respiratory disease mortality at a microwave popcorn production facility with worker risk of bronchiolitis obliterans. PLoS One 2013;8(2):e57935.
3. Hoy RF, Baird T, Hammerschlag G, et al. Artificial stone-associated silicosis: a rapidly emerging occupational lung disease. Occup Environ Med 2018;75(1):3–5.
4. Clarke CC, Mowat FS, Kelsh MA, Roberts MA. Pleural plaques: a review of diagnostic issues and possible nonasbestos factors. Arch Environ Occup Health 2006;61(4):183–92.
5. Killick J. The rural doctor who wears a gas mask on his ‘dangerously dusty’ road. Stuff, 7 December 2022.
6. Pairon JC, Laurent F, Rinaldo M, et al. Pleural plaques and the risk of pleural mesothelioma. J Natl Cancer Inst 2013;105(4):293–301
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