PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Martin J Seed
AU  - Melanie Carder
AU  - Matthew Gittins
AU  - Dil Sen
AU  - Annemarie Money
AU  - David Fishwick
AU  - Chris M Barber
AU  - Martie van Tongeren
TI  - Emerging trends in the UK incidence of occupational asthma: should we be worried?
AID  - 10.1136/oemed-2018-105414
DP  - 2019 Jun 01
TA  - Occupational and Environmental Medicine
PG  - 396--397
VI  - 76
IP  - 6
4099  - http://oem.bmj.com/content/76/6/396.short
4100  - http://oem.bmj.com/content/76/6/396.full
SO  - Occup Environ Med2019 Jun 01; 76
AB  - While 15% of adult-onset asthma is estimated to have an occupational cause, there has been evidence of a downward trend in occupational asthma incidence in several European countries since the start of this millennium. However, recent data from The Health and Occupation Reporting network in the UK have suggested a possible reversal of this downward trend since 2014. We present these data and discuss possible explanations for this observed change in incidence trend. A high index of suspicion of occupational causation in new-onset asthma cases continues to be important, whether or not the recently observed increase in occupational asthma incidence in the UK is real or artefactual.