• Title of article

    Occupational Asthma

  • Author/Authors

    Voelter-Mahlknecht, S F Saarland University Medical Center, Germany

  • From page
    76
  • To page
    81
  • Abstract
    Occupational asthma is defined as “a disease of variable airflow limitations and/or airway hyper-responsiveness due to causes and conditions attributable to a particular occupational environment and not stimuli that are being encountered outside the workplace.” An analysis of general population-based studies published up to 2007 showed that 17.6% of all adultonset asthma is due to workplace exposures. In this article, Different aspects of occupational asthma are briefly reviewed.
  • Keywords
    Asthma , Occupational exposure , Workplace , Occupational asthma
  • Journal title
    The International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (IJOEM)
  • Journal title
    The International Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (IJOEM)
  • Record number

    2579235