Byssinosis 81 byssinosis-related fatalities reported in the United States between 1990 and 1999, 48% included an occupation in the yarn, thread, and fabric industry on the victim's death certificate. This disease often occurred in the times of the industrial revolution. Most commonly young girls working in mills or other textile factories would be afflicted with this disease. In the United States, from 1996 to 2005, North Carolina accounted for about 37% of all deaths caused by byssinosis, with 31, followed by South Carolina (8) and Georgia (7). The term "brown lung" is a misnomer, as the lungs of affected individuals are
Lewy body dementia with Parkinson's disease, and according to his widow he experienced depression, anxiety, and increasing paranoia. Upon autopsy his widow said he was found to have diffuse DLB. Ian G. McKeith, a dementia researcher and professor of old age psychiatry, commented that DLB was still too little known, and that Williams' symptoms were explained by DLB. The LBDA clarified the distinction between the term used in the autopsy report, "diffuse Lewy body dementia"—which is more commonly called "diffuse Lewy body disease" and refers to the underlying disease process—and the umbrella term, "Lewy body dementia," which encompasses both PDD and DLB. According