[Criteria for informative laboratory biomarkers selection in occupational medicine (analytic literature review)].

The authors considered importance and possibilities of using laboratory values in occupational medicine and pathology for diagnosis of occupational diseases. Evaluation covered requirements and methodic approaches to selection of the most informative diagnostically reliable laboratory biomarkers and to elaboration of their complexes. The article covers examples of selecting informative biomarkers in exposure to various occupational hazards and specific complexes to identify harm caused by coal dust, vibration, chemical factors, skin diseases.