The national sheet metal worker asbestos disease screening program: Radiologic findings

Abstract

This report presents data gathered from a series of asbestos disease screening examinations of 9,605 United States sheet metal workers who were first employed in the trade at least 20 years before the examination. The overall prevalence of asbestos‐related radiographic changes was 31.1%: 18.8% had pleural abnormalities alone, 6.6% had parenchymal abnormalities (International Labour Office (ILO) score of 1/0 or higher) © 1994 Wiley‐Liss, Inc. Copyright © 1994 Wiley Periodicals, Inc., A Wiley Company