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A Comparison of Work-Exacerbated Asthma Cases from Clinical and Epidemiological Settings [PDF]
Canadian Respiratory Journal, 2013 BACKGROUND: Clinical and epidemiological studies commonly use different case definitions in different settings when investigating work-exacerbated asthma (WEA). These differences are likely to impact characteristics of the resulting WEA cases.
Paul K Henneberger +2 more
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Update on the Management of Occupational Asthma and Work-Exacerbated Asthma. [PDF]
Allergy Asthma Immunol Res, 2019 Work-related asthma is the most common occupational lung disease encountered in clinical practice. In adult asthmatics, work-relatedness can account for 15%-33% of cases, but delays in diagnosis remain common and lead to worse outcomes. Accurate diagnosis of asthma is the first step to managing occupational asthma, which can be sensitizer-induced or ...
Lau A, Tarlo SM.
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Work-exacerbated Asthma. [PDF]
Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 2018 Asthma is a very common disease in adults, including in those who work outside the home. Work-related asthma refers to asthma that is either caused by or worsened by something at work. It is very important to know whether someone has work-related asthma because there are specific ways to manage it.
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Update on work-exacerbated asthma
International Journal of Occupational Medicine and Environmental Health, 2016 Work-exacerbated asthma (WEA) is the term used to describe the worsening of asthma related to work but not the causation of asthma by work. It is common and has been reported to occur for 21.5% of working asthmatics on average. The frequency and severity
Susan M. Tarlo
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Clinical Importance of Work-Exacerbated Asthma: Findings From a Prospective Asthma Cohort in a Highly Industrialized City in Korea. [PDF]
Allergy Asthma Immunol Res, 2021 Work-related asthma (WRA) occupies about 10%-30% of all asthma cases. Among 2 subtypes of WRA (occupational asthma [OA] and work-exacerbated asthma [WEA]), the rate of WEA has been reported to increase recently. WRA is described as having worse characteristics than non-WRA (NWRA), while WEA is known to show similar severity to OA in terms of symptoms ...
Jo W +15 more
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Rhinitis in Subjects With Work-Exacerbated Asthma [PDF]
Respiratory Medicine, 2010 This study aimed at characterizing the nature, severity, and timing of nasal and ocular symptoms in subjects with work-exacerbated asthma (WEA).Among the 363 subjects referred to a tertiary-care hospital for the investigation of work-related asthma symptoms, 105 subjects who demonstrated non-specific bronchial hyperresponsiveness to histamine, but a ...
Jacques Jamart +2 more
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Journal of Asthma and AllergyMonique da Silva Pinto,1 Caroline de Oliveira Ribeiro,1 Paula Morisco de Sá,2 Hermano Albuquerque Castro,3 Thiago Prudente Bártholo,4 Agnaldo José Lopes,4 Pedro Lopes Melo1,5 1Biomedical Instrumentation Laboratory, Institute of Biology and Faculty of ...
Pinto MDS +6 more
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Nasopharyngeal Microbiome Composition is Different Among Children with Bronchial Asthma [PDF]
Pediatric Sciences Journal (Egypt), 2021 substantially over time. A stable microbiome is essential for immune development, while dysbiosis in the microbiome has been associated with an increased risk for asthma and allergies.
Christine W.S. Basanti +5 more
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Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, 2021 Work-related asthma (WRA) is highly prevalent in the adult population. WRA includes occupational asthma (OA), which is asthma caused by workplace exposures, and work-exacerbated asthma (WEA), also known as work-aggravated asthma, which is preexisting or ...
Lavinia Clara Del Roio +4 more
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Screening tools for work-related asthma and their diagnostic accuracy: a systematic review protocol
BMJ Open, 2022 Introduction Work-related asthma (WRA) refers to asthma caused by exposures at work (occupational asthma) and asthma made worse by work conditions (work-exacerbated asthma). WRA is common among working-age adults with asthma and impacts individual health,
Peymane Adab +3 more
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