Entropy Analysis for the Evaluation of Respiratory Changes Due to Asbestos Exposure and Associated Smoking by Paula M. Sá, Hermano A. Castro, Agnaldo J. Lopes, Pedro L. Melo

“…Taken together, these results suggest that entropy analysis may provide an early and sensitive functional indicator of interstitial asbestosis.…”
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Calendar Effect and In-Sample Forecasting Applied to Mesothelioma Mortality Data by Alex Isakson, Simone Krummaker, María Dolores Martínez-Miranda, Ben Rickayzen

“…While we compare three approaches to this problem, we show that the extended continuous chain ladder model is a promising benchmark candidate for asbestosis mortality forecasting due to its flexible and simple forecasting strategy. …”
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Asbestos-related cancer in naval personnel: findings from participants in the British nuclear tests 1952–1967 by Richard T. Gun, Gerry M. Kendall

“…The relatively high SIRs for mesothelioma and the occurrence of deaths from asbestosis were indicative of high levels of asbestos exposure, with an expectation of cases of asbestos-related lung cancer. …”
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Spatial analysis of asbestos exposure and occupational health care in Poland during the period 2004-2013 by Małgorzata Krówczyńska, Ewa Wilk

“…The use of a database on health aspects of occupational and environmental asbestos exposure was also proposed in Asbestos, Asbestosis, and Cancer: Helsinki Criteria update 2014.…”
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Asbestos-related cancer in naval personnel: findings from participants in the British nuclear tests 1952–1967 by Gun, RT, Kendall, G

“…The relatively high SIRs for mesothelioma and the occurrence of deaths from asbestosis were indicative of high levels of asbestos exposure, with an expectation of cases of asbestos-related lung cancer. …”

Preventive Measures to Eliminate Asbestos-Related Diseases in Singapore by John Wah Lim, David Koh, Judy Sng Gek Khim, Giang Vinh Le, Ken Takahashi

“…The existing Workman’s Compensation System for ARD should be further refined, given that is currently stipulates that claims for asbestosis and malignant mesothelioma be made within 36 and 12 months after ceasing employment.…”
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Imaging in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis: diagnosis and mimics by Bruno Hochhegger, Edson Marchiori, Matheus Zanon, Adalberto Sperb Rubin, Renata Fragomeni, Stephan Altmayer, Carlos Roberto Ribeiro Carvalho, Bruno Guedes Baldi

“…Confirmation of an idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis diagnosis is challenging, requiring the exclusion of pulmonary fibroses with known causes, such as asbestosis, connective tissue diseases, drug exposure, chronic hypersensitivity pneumonitis, and other forms of idiopathic interstitial pneumonitis. …”
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The German experience with asbestos-related diseases: a failure of compensation due to the manipulation of science by Hans-Joachim Woitowitz, Arthur, L. Frank, Xaver Baur

“…The so called one thousand asbestos body hypothesis for the diagnosis of asbestosis, originating from the German Mesothelioma Register run by the employers’ statutory accident insurance institutions, has been applied in Germany and similarly in several other western countries. …”
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An Innovative Filtering System for the Handling of Asbestos-Based Products: Improvement of Safety and Quality of Work in Analysis Laboratories by Oriana Motta, Concetta Pironti, Marta Venier, Antonio Proto

“…Although being banned or restricted in many countries since the early 1990s, large quantities of asbestos are still used or present in building materials all over the world and its removal or handling requires specific systems that limit exposure to airborne fibers The exposure to asbestos causes chronic diseases such as asbestosis and lung cancer with an incubation period of 20 to 50 years. …”
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Ongoing downplaying of the carcinogenicity of chrysotile asbestos by vested interests by Xaver Baur, Arthur L. Frank

“…This has been successfully done in recent years and decades in spite of the overwhelming evidence that all asbestos types are carcinogenic and cause asbestosis. In doing so, the asbestos industry has undermined the WHO campaign to reach a worldwide ban of asbestos and to eliminate asbestos-related diseases. …”
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A critical review of asbestos concentrations in water and air, according to exposure sources by Margareth Peña-Castro, Michelle Montero-Acosta, Manuel Saba

“…However, extensive exposure to asbestos fibers, present in the environment, has been linked to several types of cancer, mesothelioma, and asbestosis. Despite worldwide regulations prohibiting or regulating the use of this material, the uncertainty surrounding the concentrations of asbestos fibers in the environment (air and water) from different sources of exposure persists.The objective of this review paper is to identify the levels of asbestos in air and water reported in the literature based on the source of exposure in diverse contexts to assess conformity with the reference limits for this mineral. …”
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Epidemiology of silicosis reported to the central register of occupational diseases over last 20 years in Poland by Joanna Nowak-Pasternak, Agnieszka Lipińska-Ojrzanowska, Beata Świątkowska

“…Results During the period 2000–2019, 2066 confirmed cases of silicoses and 10 665 cases of other pneumoconioses including asbestosis and coal workers’ pneumoconiosis were reported to the Central Register of Occupational Diseases. …”
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Single-particle Mineralogy of Asbestos Mineral Particles by the Combined Use of Low-Z Particle EPMA and ATR-FTIR Imaging Techniques by Muhammad Saiful Islam Khan, Hanjin Yoo, Li Wu, Hayeong Lee, Minjeong Kim, Jonghyeon Park, Chul-Un Ro

“…Asbestos fibers have been reported as a natural carcinogen which causes some serious illness like mesothelioma, asbestosis, and lung cancer. Atmospheric aerosols are heterogeneous mixtures and airborne asbestos fibers would be present due to their extensive industrial uses for various purposes. …”
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Late Inflammation Induced by Asbestiform Fibers in Mice Is Ameliorated by a Small Molecule Synthetic Lignan by Reagan Badger, Kyewon Park, Ralph A. Pietrofesa, Melpo Christofidou-Solomidou, Kinta M. Serve

“…Exposure to Libby amphibole (LA) asbestos-like fibers is associated with increased risk of asbestosis, mesothelioma, pulmonary disease, and systemic autoimmune disease. …”
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Natural hollow clay nanotubes and their applications as polymer nanocomposites in tissue engineering by Li Wen Wong, Calvin Bok Sun Goh, Pooria Pasbakhsh, Joash Ban Lee Tan

“…Conversely, the extensively fibrous and smaller dimensions of chrysotile (compared to Hal and imogolites) have been associated with bioaccumulation and asbestosis, limiting chrysotile applications. Nevertheless, the electrostatically-charged lumens of these nanomaterials enable the encapsulation and sustained release of active agents into the surrounding tissues. …”
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Assessment of pulmonary function test in brick factory workers by Nandini Bansal, Ajay Lanjewar, Sourya Acharya, Samarth Shukla

“…Some of the respiratory occupation disorders are asbestosis, silicosis, coal worker's pneumoconiosis, work-related asthma, and so on, as the duration of exposure of pollutants increases the pulmonary function decreases. …”
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Cumulative asbestos exposure and mortality from asbestos related diseases in a pooled analysis of 21 asbestos cement cohorts in Italy by Ferdinando Luberto, Daniela Ferrante, Stefano Silvestri, Alessia Angelini, Francesco Cuccaro, Anna Maria Nannavecchia, Enrico Oddone, Massimo Vicentini, Francesco Barone-Adesi, Tiziana Cena, Dario Mirabelli, Lucia Mangone, Francesca Roncaglia, Orietta Sala, Simona Menegozzo, Roberta Pirastu, Danila Azzolina, Sara Tunesi, Elisabetta Chellini, Lucia Miligi, Patrizia Perticaroli, Aldo Pettinari, Vittoria Bressan, Enzo Merler, Paolo Girardi, Lucia Bisceglia, Alessandro Marinaccio, Stefania Massari, Corrado Magnani, the working group

“…Considering asbestos related diseases (ARDs), statistically significant excesses were observed for MN of peritoneum (SMR: men 14.19; women 15.14), pleura (SMR: 22.35 and 48.10), lung (SMR: 1.67 and 1.67), ovary (in the highest exposure class SMR 2.45), and asbestosis (SMR: 507 and 1023). Mortality for ARDs, in particular pleural and peritoneal malignancies, lung cancer, ovarian cancer and asbestosis increased monotonically with cumulative exposure. …”
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Exercise-Based Pulmonary Rehabilitation for Interstitial Lung Diseases: A Review of Components, Prescription, Efficacy, and Safety by Renata G. Mendes, Viviane Castello-Simões, Renata Trimer, Adriana S. Garcia-Araújo, Andrea Lucia Gonçalves Da Silva, Snehil Dixit, Valéria Amorim Pires Di Lorenzo, Bruno Archiza, Audrey Borghi-Silva

“…Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) comprise a heterogeneous group of disorders (such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, sarcoidosis, asbestosis, and pneumonitis) characterized by lung parenchymal impairment, inflammation, and fibrosis. …”
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Migrating pleural plaque in a patient with asbestos induced pleural disease: a case report by Christian Eisenhawer, Michael K. Felten, Thomas Hager, Mikhail Gronostayskiy, Philipp Bruners, Andrea Tannapfel, Thomas Kraus

“…Abstract Background Health surveillance of formerly asbestos exposed individuals focus on early detection of asbestos related diseases, such as lung fibrosis (asbestosis), pleural plaques, mesothelioma and lung cancer in particular. …”
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Digital Pulmonology Practice with Phonopulmography Leveraging Artificial Intelligence: Future Perspectives Using Dual Microwave Acoustic Sensing and Imaging by Arshia K. Sethi, Pratyusha Muddaloor, Priyanka Anvekar, Joshika Agarwal, Anmol Mohan, Mansunderbir Singh, Keerthy Gopalakrishnan, Ashima Yadav, Aakriti Adhikari, Devanshi Damani, Kanchan Kulkarni, Christopher A. Aakre, Alexander J. Ryu, Vivek N. Iyer, Shivaram P. Arunachalam

“…These sounds have been recorded via an electronic stethoscope and analyzed using back-propagation neural networks, wavelet transform models, Gaussian mixture models and recently with machine learning and deep learning models with possible use in asthma, COVID-19, asbestosis and interstitial lung disease. The purpose of this review was to summarize lung sound physiology, recording technologies and diagnostics methods using AI for digital pulmonology practice. …”
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