Occupational Asthma

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sigsgaard, Torben. (Editor), Heederik, Dick. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Birkhũser Basel, 2010.
• Series: Progress in Inflammation Research
• Subjects: Medicine.; Immunology.; Toxicology.; Allergy.; Pneumology.; Medicine, Industrial.; Medicine & Public Health.; Occupational Medicine/Industrial Medicine.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.; Pharmacology/Toxicology.; Allergology.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8556-9

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...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents The history of research on OA
• Epidemiology of OA
• Natural history and prognosis
• Mechanisms in HMW OA
• Mechanisms in LMW OA including RADS
• Asthma like diseases in agriculture
• Work aggrevated asthma
• Environmental monitoring
• Exposure response relationships
• Diagnosis of OA
• Gene environment interaction
• PAR
• Management of OA in the individual worker
• Screening and coaching
• Regulatory aspects of exposure in the workplace
• Surveillance and prevention
• How to make population surveys.