Wheat flour sensitisation and airways disease in urban bakers.
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Wheat flour sensitisation and airways disease in urban bakers.
A total of 176 bakers and 24 subjects employed as bread slicers and wrappers were studied to examine the effect of occupational category on respiratory symptoms, ventilatory capacity, non-specific bronchial reactivity, and prick skin test responses to wheat and common allergens. Bakers had a greater prevalence of attacks of wheeze and dyspnoea and more frequently considered that work affected t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Occupational and Environmental Medicine
سال: 1984
ISSN: 1351-0711
DOI: 10.1136/oem.41.4.450