What is the difference between chronic, accelerated and acute silicosis?

What is the difference between chronic, accelerated and acute silicosis?

Roy Artal (Pulmonologist and Critical Care Physician) gives expert video advice on: Am I at risk for breathing silica dust?; What are the symptoms of silicosis?; If I work with silica dust, can I expose family or friends? and more...

Accelerated silicosis probably fits in somewhere between acute and chronic in which people are exposed to higher quantities of silica, but not so much as to cause the acute type of silicosis. These are individuals who might become ill with respiratory problems and respiratory conditions within a shorter span, sometimes as short as several years.