Pulmonary functional impairment by asbestos

Our plain-English summary of Pulmonary functional impairment by asbestos, by A. Miller (Journal of Occupational Medicine., 1988).

The study

• Author: A. Miller
• Journal: Journal of Occupational Medicine.
• Published: 1988;30(4):285, 288
• Type of article: Letter
• Read it: PubMed
• In J-M's library: Johns-Manville's company medical library held a copy (J-M no. 000923).

In plain English

This record is for a 1988 item by A. Miller in the Journal of Occupational Medicine titled "Pulmonary functional impairment by asbestos." The page on which it appears carries the heading "Letters to the Editor," which suggests it was a letter rather than a research study. The text supplied for this summary does not contain the body of the letter. What is present is mostly advertising: a promotion for an eye-irrigation lens and prescribing information for the sleeping drug Halcion (triazolam). There is also part of a separate letter about using serum bile acids to detect early liver damage in workers exposed to chemicals, and a fragment of a reference list. Some of those references deal with spirometry (a breathing test) and with asbestos and air flow limitation. These are about lung function rather than liver tests, and two of them list an author named Miller A, so they may come from the Miller letter. A reference list does not show what the author argued or found, though. Because the letter itself is missing, this summary cannot report the author's study design, the people or asbestos exposure discussed, any findings, or any conclusions.

We wrote this plain-English summary from the full article with the help of AI, and a second AI model checked each sentence against the article. It is not the authors' wording; the abstract and the article are their own account.

What the study did and found

• Design: Letter to the editor (inferred from the page heading; the body of the letter is not in the supplied text)

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• Lung function impairment as a guide to exercise limitation in work-related lung disorders — J.E. Cotes, J. Zejda, et al. (1988)
• Role of exercise testing in assessing functional respiratory impairment due to asbestos exposure — J. Howard, Z. Mohsenifar, et al. (1982)

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