[Risk assessment of respiratory diseases in industrial workers].

The paper assesses a dust factor and establishes its etiological proportion in the development of respiratory diseases in workers from mining enterprises in different regions of Russia. Service-length groups at risk for upper tract diseases, criteria for early diagnosis, and a risk for occupational respiratory tract diseases were identified in miners. Trends in humoral factors of immunity were revealed in the workers without bronchopulmonary abnormalities. The efficiency of a scientifically grounded management system for an occupational risk of respiratory tract diseases was evaluated in miners.