Occupational risk factors for idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in Southern Europe: a case-control study.

ABSTRACT: BACKGROUND:Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive fibrosing interstitial pneumonia of unknown cause associated with the histopathologic and/or radiologic pattern of usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP). Occupational risk factors have been proposed to be associated with UIP. The aim of this case-control study is to evaluate the relationship between UIP pattern and occupational exposure in Southern Europe. METHODS:Sixty nine cases with a UIP radiological pattern at CT-scan were selected from a clinical database of the University Hospital of Perugia, Umbria, between January 2010 and December 2013. Controls (n = 277) not reporting doctor diagnosed pulmonary fibrosis, were ascertained casually among general population from the same catching area of cases. Data were collecte

SUBMITTER: Paolocci G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5963078 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature