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Respiratory Health in Cleaners in Northern Europe: Is Susceptibility Established in Early Life? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2015 There is some evidence that maternal smoking increases susceptibility to personal smoking's detrimental effects. One might question whether early life disadvantage might influence susceptibility to occupational exposure.In this cross-sectional study we ...
Øistein Svanes +20 more
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Occupational asthma caused by samba (Triplochiton scleroxylon) wood dust in a professional maker of wooden models of airplanes: A case study [PDF]
International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2014 Objectives: Wood dust is a known occupational allergen that may induce, in exposed workers, respiratory diseases including asthma and allergic rhinitis.
Patrycja Krawczyk-Szulc +5 more
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Contribution of host factors and workplace exposure to the outcome of occupational asthma [PDF]
European Respiratory Review, 2012 The outcome of occupational asthma after diagnosis is often poor. The identification of factors associated with a worse outcome may help in the management of the disease, determining its prognosis and assessing the permanent impairment attributable to ...
P. Maestrelli +3 more
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La Medicina del lavoro, 2006 Occupational asthma (OA) is one of the most common forms of occupational lung disease in many industrialized countries, having been implicated in 9 to 15% of adult-onset asthma. Work-related asthma includes: 1. immunologic OA, characterized by a latency period before the onset of symptoms; 2.
MAPP, Cristina +2 more
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Endotypes of occupational asthma [PDF]
Current Opinion in Allergy & Clinical ImmunologyPurpose of review To describe recent findings in endotyping occupational asthma by addressing the role of specific biomarkers. Recent findings Studies on occupational asthma endotypes have focused on immune and inflammatory patterns associated with different occupational exposures ...
Mason P., Biasioli M., Liviero F.
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Chronic cough due to occupational factors [PDF]
, 2006 Within the large variety of subtypes of chronic cough, either defined by their clinical or pathogenetic causes, occupational chronic cough may be regarded as one of the most preventable forms of the disease.
Fischer, Axel +3 more
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Environmental Health Perspectives, 1986 Many toxic compounds found in air emissions may induce bronchoconstriction. In the workplace, workers are exposed to these compounds, often in much higher concentrations. Some of these compounds act as sensitizers. Of these, some compounds induce asthma by producing specific IgE antibodies to the compound or its protein conjugate, while others induce ...
B T, Butcher, J E, Salvaggio
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Mortality from infectious pneumonia in metal workers: a comparison with deaths from asthma in occupations exposed to respiratory sensitizers [PDF]
, 2009 Introduction: national analyses of mortality in England and Wales have repeatedly shown excess deaths from pneumonia in welders. During 1979-1990 the excess was attributable largely to deaths from lobar pneumonia and pneumonias other than ...
Palmer, Keith T. +9 more
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Assessment of public health impact of work-related asthma
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2012 Background Asthma is among the most common chronic diseases in working-aged populations and occupational exposures are important causal agents. Our aims were to evaluate the best methods to assess occurrence, public health impact, and burden to society ...
Jaakkola Maritta S, Jaakkola Jouni JK
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Editorial : experimental models of asthma [PDF]
, 2008 Since 2002, a workshop entitled “Asthma in animal models” has been held once a year in Hannover, Germany. It is organized by the Fraunhofer Institute of Toxicology and Experimental Medicine in collaboration with the collaborative research centre ...
Thomas Tschernig +8 more
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