Clinical Study
Prevalence of Occupational Asthma and Respiratory Symptoms in Foundry Workers
Table 4
The distribution of occupational asthma and mean FEV1 (%) in foundry workers according to dust exposure.
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OA: occupational asthma, FEV1: forced expiratory volume in one second; the mean FEV1 (% of predicted) results of the workers were not found to be different compared to unexposed group (). bP: 0.002, cP: 0.001, dP: 0.294, eP: 0.072 compared to unexposed group; *statistically significant. |