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Asbestos Report: Highlights of the 2002 Lung Disease Surveillance Report

Read the highlights in the CDC’s Work-Related Lung Disease Surveillance Report. This section focuses on asbestos exposure, a known carcinogen that causes mesothelioma, lung cancer and asbestosis.

  • Asbestosis deaths among U.S. residents age 15 and over have increased from fewer than 100 in 1968 to more than 1,250 annually in 1999, the most recent year for which data are available, with no apparent leveling off of this trend.
  • Over the 10-year period from 1990 to 1999, there were more than 10,000 asbestosis deaths and annual asbestosis death counts increased by one-third.
  • During the 10-year period from 1990 to 1999, asbestosis deaths represented about one-third of all pneumoconiosis deaths.
  • For 1998 and for 1999, asbestosis deaths outnumbered coal workers’ pneumoconiosis (CWP) deaths, displacing CWP as the most frequent type of pneumoconiosis death.
  • Asbestosis was designated as the underlying cause of death in one-third of all asbestosis deaths from 1990 to 1999.
  • Residents of California, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Texas, Florida, Washington, and Virginia together accounted for nearly half of all asbestosis deaths in the 1990 to 1999 period.
  • For the period from 1985 to 1999, four counties (one in Virginia, one in Texas, one in Mississippi, and one in New Jersey) had age-adjusted asbestosis mortality rates that exceeded the national rate by more than 20-fold.

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Government report on lung disease and asbestos
Federal report on lung disease and asbestos work
Report summary on work related asbestos jobs
Surveillance report on asbestos dangers at work
Surveillance report on asbestos hazards at work
Surveillance report on asbestos related disease
Surveillance report on asbestos exposure at work
Report highlights asbestos related lung statistics
Report continued here on asbestos lung statistics
Mesothelioma statistics from a federal report
Report highlights asbestos related lung conditions


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Report summary on work related asbestos jobs Government agency report on lung disease and asbestos related work
Report summary on asbestos related work and lung disease

Surveillance report on asbestos hazards at work Summary to asbestos surveillance report on work related lung disease
Surveillance report highlights on work related asbestos lung disease

Government agency report on asbestos lung disease Government report on lung disease associated with asbestos exposure
Center for Disease Control report on asbestos-related lung disease