Occupational Asthma
Recent developments in the field of occupational asthma research and clinical practice are the topic of this volume. The contribution of occupational exposures to chemical and biological agents to the burden of asthma in adults is clearly described in an overview of the most recent epidemiological d...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basel :
Birkhäuser Basel,
2010.
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| Series: | Progress in Inflammation Research
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Table of Contents:
- The history of research on asthma in the workplace — Development, victories and perspectives
- Epidemiology and risk factors of occupational respiratory asthma and occupational sensitization
- Epidemiology of laboratory animal allergy
- Population-attributable fraction for occupation and asthma
- Definition and diagnosis of occupational asthma
- Work-exacerbated asthma
- Natural history and prognosis
- Mechanisms of allergic occupational asthma
- Mechanisms of occupational asthma caused by low-molecular-weight chemicals
- Asthma-like diseases in agriculture
- Allergen and irritant exposure and exposure-response relationships
- Gene-environment interactions in occupational asthma
- Asthma in apprentice workers The birth cohort parallel: Using apprentices as a powerful cohort design for studying occupational asthma
- Management of an individual worker with occupational asthma
- Social consequences and quality of life in work-related asthma
- Prevention of work-related asthma seen from the workplace and the public health perspective
- Prevention and regulatory aspects of exposure to asthmagens in the workplace
- Design, conduct and analysis of surveys on work-related asthma.
