Health assessment of employees with occupationally exposure to irritating gases and vapors

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Article Title:	Health assessment of employees with occupationally exposure to irritating gases and vapors
Authors:	Lorand Szasz*, Zsuzsanna Szasz1, Horatiu Moldovan1
Affiliation:	Occupational Health Department, Faculty of Medicine, University of Medicine anf Pharmacy, Targu Mureş, Occupational Health Department, Mures County Clinic Hospital
Abstract:	The study is based on occupational history and functional respiratory exploration in a number of 892 workers from a chemical fertilizer factory with occupational exposure to irritant gases and vapors. Analyzing the relationship between exposure to pollutants and the occurrence of changes in respiratory parameters we show that there is no a direct relationship between them. Also, smoking does not influence decisively the modifies in spirometry values to workers exposed to occupational respiratory pollutants, in the context of the existence of different degrees of pulmonary obstruction in a significant proportion of the study group, being due to many factors, comprising both employment component as regular component.
Keywords:	irritating gases and vapors, spirometry, occupational history, exposure
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*Correspondence:	Szasz Lorand-Csaba, Occupational Health Department, University of Medicine anf Pharmacy, Targu-Mures, Romania, Tel. 0740.358.709, e-mail: zsuzsannaagnes@yahoo.com