[Value of new diagnostic technologies in assessing prognosis for occupational diseases]

The review covers recent literature data on value of various diagnostic tools in evaluating prognosis for occupational morbidity, course and outcomes of occupational diseases. Special attention is focused on various forecasting patterns of occupational morbidity, on genetic markers for propensity to and resistance against occupational diseases, on ultrasound methods of vascular examination, on new X-ray densitometry of bones, on novel biochemistry methods.