Review series: Occupational and environmental lung disease: Occupational asthma
نویسندگان
چکیده
منابع مشابه
Occupational asthma: a review.
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/mechanisms, clinical presentations, management, and prevention of occupational asthma are discussed. The population attributable risk of asthma due to occupational exposures is considerable. Current understanding of the mechanisms by...
متن کاملEnvironmental and occupational asthma. Exposure assessment.
T he investigation ofallergic lung diseases has focused on the nature of the response. As a consequence, knowledge of the physiology, pathology, cellular and molecular biology ofthese diseases, and in particular ofasthma, is now considerable. In contrast, studies of the exposures that initiate and provoke asthma and hypersensitivity pneumonitis have been few, and our understanding of them corre...
متن کاملOccupational Medicine Occupational asthma
Occupational asthma may be defined as asthma induced by exposure to an inhaled agent (or agents) in the workplace. Its presentation is sometimes dramatic. Occupational exposure to platinum salts, for example, has been known to induce asthma in over 50% of an exposed workforce. For those affected, the consequences are often devastating, while the economic effects for an industry may be no less p...
متن کاملOccupational lung disease.
Despite federally mandated safety standards, occupational lung disease remains one of the most common work-related injuries. Inhaled dust can result in a range of tissue injury in the lung and can lead to significant respiratory insufficiency causing death. Although silicosis and coal worker's pneumoconiosis are becoming less common, hypersensitivity pneumonitis is increasingly recognized as an...
متن کاملOccupational Lung Disease
'Department of Hygimene and Epidemiology, University of Athens Medical School, Goudi, Athens 115-27, Greece; 2Department of Epidemiology and Center for Cancer Prewention, Harvard School of Public Health, 677 Huntington Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA; 3Department of Nutrition and Biochemistry, Athens School of Public Health, Leoforos Alexandras 196, Athens 115-21, Greece; 4Medical Cent...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Chronic Respiratory Disease
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1479-9731,1479-9731
DOI: 10.1177/1479972309346757