Occupational exposures cause 10-15% of new-onset asthma in adults, and that represents a
considerable health and economic burden. Exposure to many causative agents is now well …

This concise guidance, prepared for physicians, summarises the British Occupational Health
Research Foundation guideline for the prevention, identification and management of …

Airborne allergens are one of the major causes of asthma. People living in urban areas
more frequently experience allergic respiratory symptoms than those living in rural areas …

Occupational asthma is the most common form of occupational lung disease in the
developed world at the present time. In this review, the epidemiology, pathogenesis …

With the reduction in the disease burden from the pneumoconioses in recent years,
especially in developed countries, occupational asthma has emerged as the occupational …

The article by Nicholson et al in this issue of OEM has an ambitious aim: to assist the Health
and Safety Executive in the reduction of occupational asthma by 30% in the next five years …

BACKGROUND In his Colt lecture at the Ninth Inhaled Particles Symposium, Anthony
Newman Taylor described asthma as 'the most prevalent cause in the UK, and probably in …

While 15% of adult-onset asthma is estimated to have an occupational cause, there has
been evidence of a downward trend in occupational asthma incidence in several European …

Background The link between asthma and inhaled workplace exposures has been long
appreciated, and yet aggravation of asthma symptoms by work conditions, known as work …

Occupational asthma has become the most common work-related respiratory disorder,
supplanting such conditions as silicosis, asbestosis/and occupational lung cancer. 105, 125 …