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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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Endotypes of occupational asthma. [PDF]
Curr Opin Allergy Clin ImmunolPurpose of reviewTo describe recent findings in endotyping occupational asthma by addressing the role of specific biomarkers.Recent findingsStudies on occupational asthma endotypes have focused on immune and inflammatory patterns associated with ...
Mason P, Biasioli M, Liviero F.
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Occupational Neutrophilic Asthma [PDF]
Canadian Respiratory Journal, 1999 Occupational asthma is typically associated with an eosinophilic bronchitis. The case of a 41-year-old woman who developed symptoms of asthma after occupational exposure to metal working fluids is reported.
Richard Leigh, Frederick E Hargreave
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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.
MIOTTO, Deborah +2 more
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Allergy, 1998 Occupation Asthma is defined as an illness characterized by the existence of a variable limitation of one's air flow or a bronchial hyper-reactivity due to causes and conditions attributed to a determined labor medium and not to stimuli found outside one's work place.
S, Quirce, J, Sastre
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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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