Publications by authors named "Elizabete Medina Coeli Mendonca"
Background: There are limited data on mesothelioma mortality in industrializing countries, where, at present, most of the asbestos consumption occurs.
Objectives: To analyze temporal trends and to calculate mortality rates from mesothelioma and cancer of the pleura in Brazil from 2000 to 2012 and to estimate future mortality rates.
Methods: We retrieved records of deaths from mesothelioma (ICD-10C45) and cancer of the pleura (ICD-10C38.
Background: This study was designed to assess the effect of asbestos exposure on longitudinal lung function decline.
Methods: A group of 502 former asbestos-cement workers with at least two spirometry tests 4 years apart. Repeated evaluations included respiratory symptoms questionnaire, spirometry and chest imaging.
Background: Exposure to cleaning products has frequently been reported as a symptom trigger by workers with work-related asthma diagnosed in workers' health clinics in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.
Objectives: To estimate rhinitis and asthma symptoms prevalence and to analyse associated risk factors.
Method: A respiratory symptoms questionnaire (Medical Research Council 1976) and the International Study of Asthma and Allergies in Childhood questionnaire were applied to 341 cleaners working in the city of São Paulo, along with obtaining full occupational histories, skin prick tests and spirometry.
Background: Occupational asthma (OA) is the leading occupational respiratory disease in the area of São Paulo Municipality. Understanding its characteristics can provide useful information for better interventions.
Methods: From a joint registry of OA from five outpatient public clinics for occupational respiratory diseases, data on occupation, with job titles corrected by an expert evaluation, agents, exposure and symptom duration, and spirometry were analyzed by gender.