title: Occupational asthma.
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 adult-onset asthma is due to workplace exposures. In this article, Different aspects of occupational asthma are briefly reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Saarland University Medical Center, Homburg/Saar, Germany. Voelter-Mahlknecht@gmx.net
authors.forename: S F
authors.initials: SF
authors.lastname: Voelter-Mahlknecht
mesh_terms: D001249:Asthma / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D009784:Occupational Diseases / Q000191:economics / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D017132:Workplace