| Document ID (ISN) | 111855 |
| CIS number |
11-0496 |
| ISSN - Serial title |
2008-6520 - International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine |
| Year |
2011 |
| Convention or series no. |
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| Author(s) |
Voelter-Mahlknecht S.F. |
| Title |
Occupational asthma |
| Bibliographic information |
Apr. 2011, Vol.2, No.32, p.76-81. 40 ref. |
| Internet access |
Occupational_asthma.pdf [in English]
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| Abstract |
Occupational asthma is defined as "a disease of variable airflow limitations and/or airway hyper-responsiveness due to causes and conditions attributable to a particular occupational environment and not stimuli that are being encountered outside the workplace". An analysis of general population-based studies published up to 2007 showed that 17.6% of all adult onset asthma is due to workplace exposures. In this article, various aspects of occupational asthma are briefly reviewed. |
| Descriptors (primary) |
occupational diseases; asthma; risk factors; frequency rates |
| Descriptors (secondary) |
epidemiology; occupation disease relation; medical treatment; compensation of occupational diseases; economic aspects; literature survey; developing countries |
| Document type |
D - Periodical articles |
| Subject(s) |
Occupational pathology
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| Broad subject area(s) |
Occupational medicine, epidemiology
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| Browse category(ies) |
Diseases of the respiratory system (except for pneumoconiosis & similar)
Allergies
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