Prevention of Respiratory Diseases (Hardcover, illustrated edition)

This volume covers advances in the field of respiratory diseases, reflecting the recent and dramatic expansion of knowledge regarding the determinants of respiratory health, screening tests for early pulmonary lesions, therapeutic interventions for respiratory infections and strategies for prevention. It examines indoor and outdoor environmental sources of respiratory diseases, including levels of pollutants, air conditioning, indoor air quality and airborne allergens. Exploring ways to promote the respiratory health of both the individual and the community, Prevention of Respiratory Diseases covers areas including: the role of most of the known extrinsic and potentially preventable determinants in respiratory diseases; developments in epidemiology and children's respiratory health; the relationship between respiratory diseases and occupations; individual sensitivity or susceptibility to the effects of air pollutants; genetic, epidemiological and immunological markers, markers for bronchial cancer and the protease-antiprotease system; and the connection between tobacco smoke and respiratory diseases.;This resource is intended for pulmonologists, clinical immunologists and allergists, oncologists, physiologists, infectious disease specialists, respiratory therapists and graduate and medical school students in these disciplines.

General

Imprint:	Crc Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Lung Biology in Health and Disease
Release date:	August 1993
First published:	August 1993
Editors:	Albert Hirsch
Series editors:	Claude Lenfant
Editors:	Marcel Goldberg • Jean-Pierre Martin • Roland Masse
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 39mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	728
Edition:	illustrated edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-8247-8850-6
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Respiratory medicine Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Pathology > Medical microbiology & virology Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Infectious & contagious diseases > General Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Oncology > General Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Diseases & disorders > Immunology > Allergies
LSN:	0-8247-8850-8
Barcode:	9780824788506

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