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  • Title: [The significance of an alpine climate in the combined treatment of occupational diseases].
    Author: Tolmach DV, Bondarenko GA, Soboleva NP, Denisenko AF, Ignatova OA.
    Journal: Vrach Delo; 1989 Oct; (10):109-11. PubMed ID: 2617967.
    Abstract:
    The authors studied the influence of mountain climate (altitude: 2200 m) on the course of chronic dust-induced bronchitis, pneumoconiosis and vibration disease in 45 patients. It was found that a 1-month stay of patients with dust-induced bronchitis and pneumoconiosis in the mountains results in a positive clinical effect is accompanied by amelioration of the external respiratory function, positive changes of the hemodynamic values. Mountain climate treatment was ineffective in vibration disease.
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