Respiratory health of Hispanic migrant farm workers in Indiana

The prevalence of respiratory disease in a Midwest Hispanic (mostly Mexican) migrant farm worker population was investigated. Chronic respiratory symptoms (cough, wheezing, sputum production) in adult workers (n = 354) were elevated (8.5%, 6.2%, 6.5%, respectively) and were accompanied by physiologi...

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Veröffentlicht in:	American journal of industrial medicine 1996-01, Vol.29 (1), p.23-32
Hauptverfasser:	Garcia, Joe G. N., Matheny Dresser, K. S., Zerr, Ann D.
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Adolescent Adult Aged Agricultural Workers' Diseases - epidemiology Agricultural Workers' Diseases - ethnology Agricultural Workers' Diseases - physiopathology Biological and medical sciences Child Cohort Studies Cross-Sectional Studies farm worker Female Hispanic Hispanic Americans Humans Indiana - epidemiology Indiana - ethnology Lung Diseases - epidemiology Lung Diseases - ethnology Lung Diseases - physiopathology Male Medical sciences Middle Aged migrant Pneumology Prevalence Pulmonary Ventilation - physiology respiratory impairment Respiratory system : syndromes and miscellaneous diseases Smoking - epidemiology Time Factors tuberculosis Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - epidemiology Tuberculosis, Pulmonary - ethnology
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Zusammenfassung:	The prevalence of respiratory disease in a Midwest Hispanic (mostly Mexican) migrant farm worker population was investigated. Chronic respiratory symptoms (cough, wheezing, sputum production) in adult workers (n = 354) were elevated (8.5%, 6.2%, 6.5%, respectively) and were accompanied by physiologic abnormalities as determined by pulmonary function testing. Over 15% of the adult cohort exhibited a FEV1/FVC
ISSN:	0271-3586 1097-0274
DOI:	10.1002/(SICI)1097-0274(199601)29:1<23::AID-AJIM4>3.0.CO;2-#