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What role for asbestos in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis? Findings from the IPF job exposures case-control study.
Occupational and environmental medicine - 1 Feb 2023
Reynolds Carl J, Sisodia Rupa, Barber Chris, Moffatt Miriam, Minelli Cosetta, De Matteis Sara, Cherrie John W, Newman Taylor Anthony, Cullinan Paul
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BACKGROUND: Asbestos has been hypothesised as the cause of the recent global increase in the incidence of 'idiopathic' pulmonary fibrosis (IPF). Establishing this has important diagnostic and therapeutic implications. The association between occupational asbestos exposure and IPF, and interaction with a common (minor allele frequency of 9% in European populations) genetic variant associated with IPF, MUC5B...
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