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

Objective: In a general population of employed persons with health insurance, what
proportion of adult-onset asthma is caused by occupational exposures? Method: We …

Adults with asthma who had been enrolled in an HMO for at least a year were requested to
complete a questionnaire about their health status. Approximately 25% of the 1,461 …

Objectives: Many risk factors for asthma have been investigated, one of which is the
workplace. Work related asthma is a frequently reported occupational respiratory disease …

Occupational asthma is common, yet little is known about long-term outcomes in the United
States. A case series of 55 (of 72) occupational asthma patients were interviewed in follow …

Objective: The objective of this study was to characterize the work-related asthma population
seen by the New York State Occupational Health Clinic Network (OHCN) to determine which …

To estimate the percentage of adult asthmatics with occupational asthma in Michigan, a
sample of 94 patients, aged 20 to 65 years, who were discharged from one of three …

Background Work‐related asthma is a leading cause of occupational respiratory illness.
Methods Work‐related asthma was studied in California over a 36‐month period, from …

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 are few studies providing systematic estimates of the contribution of occupational
factors to the prevalence of asthma among adults. 1 Most investigations of asthma are work …