TY - JOUR
T1 - Respiratory findings and urban living
AU - Comstock, George W.
AU - Stone, Richard W.
AU - Sakai, Yoshimichi
AU - Matsuya, Tetsuo
AU - Tonascia, James A.
N1 - Funding Information:
This investigation was supported in part by grant FJ 5008 from the National Science Foundation; grant M7 from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science; research grant HE 08356 and research career award HL 21,670 from the National Heart and Lung Institute; general research support grant FR 05445, Public Health Service; Health Research Council of New York City grant U2020; and a grant from the American Thoracic Society.
PY - 1973/9
Y1 - 1973/9
N2 - School of Hygiene, Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA In 1962 and 1963, a cardio respiratory examination was administered to men 40 to 64 years of age in selected occupations in telephone companies in Baltimore, New York, Washington, DC, and rural Westchester County, New York Five to six years later, these examinations were repeated for the same groups of employees. Similar examinations were given in 1967 to the same types of employees in Tokyo. In all three surveys, respiratory abnormalities were more frequent with increasing age and with increasing numbers of cigarettes smoked per day. With due allowance for the effects of age and smoking, there were no significant associations of findings with residence at birth, previous or current home address, or present place of employment, except that men employed in New York tended to have slightly increased frequency of symptoms involving cough and phlegm.
AB - School of Hygiene, Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA In 1962 and 1963, a cardio respiratory examination was administered to men 40 to 64 years of age in selected occupations in telephone companies in Baltimore, New York, Washington, DC, and rural Westchester County, New York Five to six years later, these examinations were repeated for the same groups of employees. Similar examinations were given in 1967 to the same types of employees in Tokyo. In all three surveys, respiratory abnormalities were more frequent with increasing age and with increasing numbers of cigarettes smoked per day. With due allowance for the effects of age and smoking, there were no significant associations of findings with residence at birth, previous or current home address, or present place of employment, except that men employed in New York tended to have slightly increased frequency of symptoms involving cough and phlegm.
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U2 - 10.1080/00039896.1973.10666343
DO - 10.1080/00039896.1973.10666343
M3 - Article
C2 - 4722870
AN - SCOPUS:0015849123
SN - 0003-9896
VL - 27
SP - 143
EP - 150
JO - Archives of Environmental Health
JF - Archives of Environmental Health
IS - 3
ER -