Abstract:Introduction. Employees engaged in mining are exposed to several harmful (hazardous) occupation factors: dust factor, industrial noise, general and local vibration, hard labour, heating or cooling microclimate. The paper aims at studying the influence of the length of employment in underground chrome ore mining coupled with biological (age, obesity) and behavioral (smoking) parameters on spirometric bronchial obstruction indices. Material and methods. The study included 134 employees of a chrome ore mine havin… Show more
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