Association of Occupational Exposures and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Morbidity

Jennifer S Rous¹, Peter S J Lees, Kirsten Koehler+17

• ¹From the Region VIII, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, Department of Labor, Denver, Colorado (J.S.R.); Department of Environmental Health and Engineering, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland (J.S.R., P.S.J.L., K.K., J.P.B., L.Q.-A.); Department of Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan (M.K.H., W.L.); Department of Radiology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (E.A.H.); Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York (R.G.B.); Department of Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina (S.P.P.); Department of Medicine, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah (R.P., C.P., R.E.K.); Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California (C.B.C.); Department of Medicine, University of Alabama, Birmingham, Alabama (M.T.D..); Department of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa (A.P.C.); Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (M.B.D.); Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland (N.P., N.N.H.); and Department of Medicine, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center/Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire (L.M.P.).