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Pneumoconiosis is actually the most common occupational disease in our country at the moment. Occupational diseases are diseases that workers contract from being exposed to dust, radioactive materials, or other toxic and harmful substances or harmful mental factors during their regular work. In other words, there is a direct causal relationship between the onset of the disease and occupational exposure, with dust exposure leading to pneumoconiosis being the most common.
As the name suggests, it seems, on the surface, that pneumoconiosis means there is a lot of dust in the lungs. The true meaning isn't too far from this. Pneumoconiosis is a disease where the lung tissue becomes fibrotic due to long-term inhalation of inorganic dust particles in the work environment, consequently impairing lung function.
The cause is long-term exposure to dust at work, and the result is fibrosis of lung tissue and impaired lung function.