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AGENTS, OLD AND NEW, CAUSING OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA
Cristina Elisabetta Mapp
Correspondence to: Cristina E Mapp MD, Dipartimento di Medicina Clinica e Sperimentale, Sezione di Igiene e Medicina del Lavoro, Via Fossato di Mortara 64/b, 44100 Ferrara, Italy mapp@ux1.unipd.it
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Asthma is common
among adults of working age and affects 5-10% of the population
worldwide. Occupational asthma has become a common work related
respiratory disorder in the industrialised world.1 Blanc
and Toren have shown that 9% of cases of adult asthma
including
principally new onset asthma and, much more rarely, reactivation of
pre-existing asthmaare attributable to occupational factors.2 Studies that have used information collected
during military service suggest that occupational factors explain 25% of apparently new cases.3 From a practical point of view,
addressing past and present occupational factors should be a priority
in the assessment of adult onset asthma. In most cases, occupational exposures induce new onset asthma in a
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