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lassified in three categories. Vapors, gases and smoke released by the combustion of various materials were associated mainly with blast-furnaces and foundries, work with diesel engines and firefighting. Miners and metalworkers were the group most exposed to non-organic dust and smoke, while farmers, bakers and textile workers were mainly exposed to organic dust.

Colleagues in the research and co-authors on the paper are: Gillian Earnest, MS, statistician in the division of occupational and environmental medicine; Melanie San Pedro, BS, project coordinator; John Balmes, MD, professor, and Mark Eisner, MD, assistant professor, both of occupational and environmental medicine; Edward Yelin, PhD, adjunct professor, and Patricia Katz, PhD, associate adjunct professor, both in medicine and rheumatology. All positions at UCSF; Balmes is at the UCSF-affiliated San Francisco General Hospital Medical Center.

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Contact: Wallace Ravven
wravven@pubaff.ucsf.edu
415-502-1332
University of California - San Francisco
25-Aug-2003

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