Year in review 2011: acute lung injury, interstitial lung diseases, physiology, sleep and lung cancer

Our plain-English summary of Year in review 2011: acute lung injury, interstitial lung diseases, physiology, sleep and lung cancer, by K. Takahashi, N.D. Eves, A. Piper, et al (Respirology, 2012).

The study

• Authors: K. Takahashi, N.D. Eves, A. Piper, Y. Song, T.M. Maher
• Journal: Respirology
• Published: 2012;17(3):554-62
• Type of article: Review
• Cited by: 1 article, as counted by NIH iCite
• Read it: PubMed · Publisher

In plain English

This article was a "year in review", not an original study. It summarised papers published in the journal Respirology in 2011 on acute lung injury, interstitial lung diseases, sleep, lung physiology and lung cancer. The findings it describes come from those other papers. Asbestos appeared only in a short closing paragraph. There, the review noted that van Meerbeeck and colleagues had reviewed the epidemiology, diagnosis and future perspective of asbestos-related diseases. It also described a descriptive analysis by Le and colleagues of asbestos use and asbestos-related diseases in Asia. According to the review, that analysis found several things. Asia's share of global asbestos use had been increasing over the years. The highest age-adjusted mortality rates were recorded in Cyprus, Israel and Japan. The marked rise in asbestos use in Asia since 1970 appeared to have triggered a surge of asbestos-related diseases, likely to keep increasing over the next few decades. The review reported that Le and colleagues concluded Asian countries should stop using asbestos immediately and prepare for an impending epidemic of asbestos-related diseases. The review gave no figures for these findings.

We wrote this plain-English summary from the full article with the help of AI, and a second AI model checked each sentence against the article. It is not the authors' wording; the abstract and the article are their own account.

What the study did and found

• Design: Narrative 'year in review' of papers published in Respirology in 2011; not an original study
• Who was studied: Papers published in Respirology during 2011 on acute lung injury, interstitial lung diseases, sarcoidosis, sleep, physiology and lung cancer; the asbestos paragraph covers two of these papers (van Meerbeeck et al.; Le et al.)
• Exposure: Asbestos use in Asia and asbestos-related diseases, as analysed by Le et al. (no fiber types, products or doses are given in this review)
• Main results:
  • Reported from van Meerbeeck et al.: they reviewed the epidemiology, diagnosis and future perspective of asbestos-related diseases
  • Reported from Le et al.: the proportion of global asbestos use attributed to Asia had been increasing over the years
  • Reported from Le et al.: the highest age-adjusted mortality rates were recorded in Cyprus, Israel and Japan (no rates are given)
  • Reported from Le et al.: the marked increase in asbestos use in Asia since 1970 appeared to have triggered a surge of asbestos-related diseases, likely to continue increasing over the next few decades
• The authors' conclusion: The review draws no asbestos conclusion of its own. It reports that Le et al. concluded Asian countries should stop using asbestos immediately and prepare for an impending epidemic of asbestos-related diseases.

Topics

The National Library of Medicine indexes this study under subjects our site covers: Lung cancer.

Medical terms in this study, explained in our Lexicon: Interstitial Lung Disease, Lung Cancer.

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