Article
[Hereditary polymorphism features in patients with silicosis associated with chronic bronchitis].
Meditsina truda i promyshlennaia ekologiia - 1 Jan 2001
Morozova O A, Gorbatovskiĭ Ia A, Surzhikov V D, Lotosh E A, Luzina F A, Gafarov N I, Morozov V P
Abstract excerpt
Chronic bronchitis frequently accompanies silicosis in metallurgy workers. Association of the two diseases significantly lowers life quality and disables the patients. Prophylactic measures for the diseases are elimination of the etiologic factors and detection of genetic markers for propensity and insusceptibility to silicosis and chronic bronchitis. Phenotypes of Lewis a-b- system, of Hp2-1 haptoglobin and of...
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