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Occupation exposure accounts for 16% of adult-onset asthma in prospective population studies

Occupation exposure accounts for 16% of adult-onset asthma in prospective population studies
Confirms population attributable risk of occupation as a cause of adult onset asthma, mostly in the under 44's, from population studies. estimated PAR 16%. Also provides data for hypersensitivity pneumonitis (occupational burden 19%), COPD (14%), Alveolar proteinosis (29%0, IPF (26%), Community acquired pneumonia (10%), sarcoid and other granulomatous diseases (30%).

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Full Text Available for The Occupational Burden of Nonmalignant Respiratory Diseases. An Official American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society Statement Blanc PD, Annesi-Maesano I, Balmes JR, Cummings KJ, Fishwick D, Miedinger D, Murgia N, Naidoo RN, Reynolds CJ, Sigsgaard T, Torén K, Vinnikov D, and Redlich CA, The Occupational Burden of Nonmalignant Respiratory Diseases. An Official American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society Statement, Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 2019;199:1312-1334,doi.org/10.1164/rccm.201904-0717ST
David Fishwick, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK, an author of 'The Occupational Burden of Nonmalignant Respiratory Diseases. An Official American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society Statement' Torben Sigsgaard, University of Aarhus, an author of 'The Occupational Burden of Nonmalignant Respiratory Diseases. An Official American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society Statement' Kjell Toren, Sahlgrenska University Hospital. Goteborg, an author of 'The Occupational Burden of Nonmalignant Respiratory Diseases. An Official American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society Statement' Paul Blanc, University of California San Francisco, an author of 'The Occupational Burden of Nonmalignant Respiratory Diseases. An Official American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society Statement' David Miedinger, Lucern, Basel and Montreal, an author of 'The Occupational Burden of Nonmalignant Respiratory Diseases. An Official American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society Statement' Carl Reynolds, Royal Brompton Hospital, an author of 'The Occupational Burden of Nonmalignant Respiratory Diseases. An Official American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society Statement'

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