Asthma risk and occupation as a respiratory therapist
โ Scribed by DavidC. Christiani; DavidG. Kern
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 135 KB
- Volume
- 25
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-4375
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
## Abstract 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 countries there has been a significant increase in the prevalence of asthma. Against this background th
Occupational asthma may account for a significant proportion of adult-onset asthma, but incidence estimates from surveillance of physician reports and workers'compensation data (0.9 to 15/100,000) are lower than expected from community-based cross-sectional studies of asthma patients. We conducted a