The earliest account of an occupational asthma (OA) cause was attributed to Hippocrates
(460–370 BCE), who described panting, a literal translation of asthma, in metal workers …

Identifying asthma triggers forms the basis of environmental secondary prevention. These
triggers may be allergenic or nonallergenic. Allergenic triggers include indoor allergens …

Objective: The objective of this article is to evaluate genetic risks associated with the
pulmonary response to air pollutants, including particulates and ozone. Methods: A …

Epidemiology has been described as a discipline and not as a science (1). As a discipline,
epidemiology comprises a set of principles and approaches that, in their application to the …

The expression occupational asthma (OA) was originally the only term used to describe the
link, most often causal, between asthma and the workplace. Moreover, OA then included …

There is increasing concern about the association of respiratory disease with indoor air
quality and environmental atmospheric pollution. Associated with this is the fact that in many …

A retrospective review was performed on the files of 154 consecutive workers assessed for
occupational asthma to clarify the relative frequency of asthma induced by irritants in the …

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 …

Epidemiology is the study of the distribution, determinants and outcome of disease. In this
article, the recently acquired knowledge of the epidemiology of occupational asthma is …

Aims: To investigate quantitatively, relationships between chemical structure and reported
occupational asthma hazard for low molecular weight (LMW) organic compounds; to …