Occupational asthma is asthma that's caused or worsened by breathing in chemical fumes, gases, dust, or other substances on the job. Like other types of asthma, occupational asthma can cause chest ...

Workplace exposures to coal mine dust, cotton dust, silica, and grain dust are known causes of occupational COPD. [11,12,13,14,15] Exposure to isocyanates, natural rubber latex, animal danders, ...

Background: Hairdressers are at risk for occupational respiratory diseases, but the risk factors, causal agents, and underlying mechanisms are not completely defined. Aim: To describe the features of ...

Many intrinsic and extrinsic factors hinder primary health care professionals from identifying a patient as having occupational asthma. Occupational asthma (OA) is often overlooked as a diagnosis in ...

An industrial disease law firm is revealing the 11 types of employees it claims are at higher risk for asthma due to frequent exposure to irritants -- including hairdressers and animal handlers.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Occupational clinicians should advise workers with asthma to reduce these exposures, Guillaume Sit, PharmD, PhD ...

New research presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress [1] suggests that the seemingly innocuous environment of an office can cause asthma in some workers. The study found a ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a report confirming the first case of an occupational asthma death in U.S. cannabis history. Per the report filed by the Occupational Safety ...

New research presented at the European Respiratory Society International Congress suggests that the seemingly innocuous environment of an office can cause asthma in some workers. The study found a ...

Almost two years following the death of a 27-year-old worker in a Massachusetts cannabis production facility, state and federal investigators said that work-related occupational asthma was the cause ...

Asthma is the most common occupational lung disease in industrialized countries (Venables and Chan-Yeung, 1997), and it has been estimated that 5–20% of all adult asthma cases have an occupational ...

image: The research was conducted to assess the vitamin D intake in occupational asthma patients and the relation with body mass index, comorbidities related to vitamin D deficit, lung function and ...