With the accelerating pace of new knowledge about occupational asthma, systematic
epidemiological approaches have yielded important new insights into its clinical …

Occupational asthma is variable airways narrow-ing causally related to exposure in the
working environment to airborne dusts, gases, vapours, or fumes. It affectsonly a proportion …

Occupational asthma may account for a significant proportion of adult‐onset asthma, but
incidence estimates from surveillance of physician reports and workers' compensation data …

Work-related asthma is a common occupational lung disease. The scope of the Fourth Jack
Pepys Workshop that was held in May 2010 went beyond asthma to include discussion of …

New scientific information provides better, accurate figures on the frequency of occupational
asthma and on risk factors, proposes relevant diagnostic tools more directly related to the …

PURPOSE: Many occupational factors can cause asthma or reactivate preexisting disease.
We carried out a critical review and synthesis of the available literature to estimate the …

There is a long and sometimes ignoble history of occupational diseases being normalised
and/or wrongly attributed to factors outside the workplace. In 1919, for example, a local …

Occupational rhinitis is a common but generally underreported entity. Although it may occur
alone, it is frequently associated with occupational asthma. Occupational asthma may have …

With more than 200 agents inducing occupational asthma, an organized approach to identify
the impact of both low-and high-molecular-weight agents is important. In this report, our goal …