Table 2.
The distribution and rates of occupational respiratory diseases (the total number of patients from 2013 to 2023)
| Occupational respiratory disease | Males n (%) |
Females n (%) |
All cases n (%) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pneumoconioses (all) | 2069 (88.57) | 15 (23.08) | 2084 (86.8) | |
| Coal workers’ pneumoconiosis | 399 (17.08) | - | 399 (16.62) | |
| Asbestosis | 78 (3.34) | - | 78 (3.25) | |
| Silicosis | 1543 (66.05) | 15 (23.08) | 1558 (64.89) | |
| Talcosis | 5 (0.21) | - | 5 (0.21) | |
| Aluminosis | 4 (0.17) | - | 4 (0.17) | |
| Siderosis | 15 (0.64) | - | 15 (0.62) | |
| Other pneumoconioses | 25 (1.07) | - | 25 (1.04) | |
| Occupational asthma | 129 (5.52) | 36 (55.38) | 165 (6.87) | |
| Organic dust toxic syndrome | 16 (0.68) | - | 16 (0.67) | |
| Toxic inhalation injury of lungs | 54 (2.31) | 1 (1.54) | 55 (2.29) | |
| Hypersensitivity pneumonitis | 11 (0.47) | 1 (1.54) | 12 (0.5) | |
| Upper respiratory tract disorders (all) | 28 (1.2) | 6 (9.23) | 34 (1.42) | |
| Toxic inhalation injury of upper respiratory tract | 20 (0.86) | 1 (1.54) | 21 (0.87) | |
| Acute laryngitis | 2 (0.09) | - | 2 (0.08) | |
| Allergic rhinitis | 6 (0.26) | 2 (3.08) | 8 (0.33) | |
| Disorders of nose and nasal sinuses | - | 3 (4.62) | 3 (0.12) | |
| Fibrotic interstitial pulmonary diseases | 10 (0.43) | - | 10 (0.42) | |
| Pleural disorders | 7 (0.3) | - | 7 (0.29) | |
| Larynx cancer | 1 (0.04) | - | 1 (0.04) | |
| Lung cancer | 3 (0.13) | - | 3 (0.12) | |
| Respiratory tuberculosis | 7 (0.3) | 6 (9.23) | 13 (0.54) | |
| Acute tracheitis | 1 (0.04) | - | 1 (0.04) | |
| All occupational respiratory diseases | 2336 (97.3) | 65 (2.7) | 2401 (100) | |
ICD-10 codes are given in Table 1