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CDC: Black Lung Patients Dying Earlier

Coal workers who died of black lung disease in recent years lost more years of life relative to their life expectancies than workers dying of the occupational disorder just a few decades ago, the CDC reports.

The study findings, published in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, are consistent with a reported increase in a particularly aggressive type of black lung disease known as progressive massive fibrosis, or PMF.

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