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Progress in Inflammation Research
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Occupational Asthma
Torben Sigsgaard
Dick Heederik
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Birkhäuser
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Torben Sigsgaard Dick Heederik
School of Public Health Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences
Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Medicine Division of Environmental and Occupational Health
Aarhus University Utrecht University
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Contents
List of contributors ................................................................. vii
Preface .............................................................................. xi
Jean-Luc Malo and Anthony Newman-Taylor
The history of research on asthma in the workplace – development,
victories and perspectives .......................................................... 1
Dick Heederik and Torben Sigsgaard
Epidemiology and risk factors of occupational respiratory asthma
and occupational sensitization ..................................................... 17
Hayley L. Jeal, Meinir G. Jones and Paul Cullinan
Epidemiology of laboratory animal allergy ........................................ 33
Kjell Torén and Paul D. Blanc
Population-attributable fraction for occupation and asthma ..................... 57
André Cartier
Definition and diagnosis of occupational asthma ................................. 71
Paul K. Henneberger and Carrie A. Redlich
Work-exacerbated asthma ......................................................... 89
Dennis Nowak
Natural history and prognosis ...................................................... 101
Xaver Baur
Mechanisms of allergic occupational asthma ..................................... 111
Vanessa De Vooght, Valérie Hox, Benoit Nemery
and Jeroen A.J. Vanoirbeek
Mechanisms of occupational asthma caused by low molecular weight
(LMW) chemicals ................................................................... 141
DCoalnipte Jn.Sts. Sirinathsinghji and Ray G. Hill
Torben Sigsgaard, Øyvind Omland and Peter S. Thorne
Asthma-like diseases in agriculture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Dick Heederik and Gert Doekes
Allergen and irritant exposure and exposure-response relationships ............. 185
Francine Kauffmann, Francesc Castro-Giner, Lidwien A.M. Smit,
Rachel Nadif and Manolis Kogevinas
Gene-environment interactions in occupational asthma .......................... 205
Denyse Gautrin and Jean-Luc Malo
Asthma in apprentice workers. The birth cohort parallel: using apprentices
as a powerful cohort design for studying occupational asthma .................. 229
Sherwood Burge
Management of an individual worker with occupational asthma ................ 249
Olivier Vandenplas and Vinciane D’Alpaos
Social consequences and quality of life in work-related asthma ................. 271
Vivi Schlünssen, Evert Meijer and Paul K. Henneberger
Prevention of work-related asthma seen from the workplace and
the public health perspective ....................................................... 281
Henrik Nordman
Prevention and regulatory aspects of exposure to asthmagens
in the workplace .................................................................... 299
Kathleen Kreiss and Dick Heederik
Design, conduct and analysis of surveys on work-related asthma ............... 327
Index ................................................................................ 355
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List of contributors
Xaver Baur, Ordinariat und Zentralinstitut für Arbeitsmedizin und Maritime
Medizin, Universität Hamburg, Seewartenstrasse 10, 20459 Hamburg, Germany;
e-mail: [email protected]
Paul D. Blanc, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of
California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
Sherwood Burge, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Heart-
lands Hospital, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham B9 5SS, UK; e-mail: sherwood.
[email protected]
André Cartier, University of Montreal, Department of Medicine, Hôpital du Sacré-
Coeur de Montréal, 5400 Boul. Gouin Ouest, Montréal, P.Q., Canada, H4J 1C5
Francesc Castro-Giner, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology
(CREAL), Barcelona, Spain; e-mail: [email protected]
Paul Cullinan, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National
Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, 1b Manresa Road, London SW3 6LR,
UK; e-mail: [email protected]
Vinciane D’Alpaos, Service de Pneumologie, Cliniques de Mont-Godinne, Univer-
sité Catholique de Louvain, B-5530, Yvoir, Belgium; e-mail: vinciane.dalpaos@
uclouvain. be
Vanessa De Vooght, O&N 1, Research Unit for Lung Toxicology (Pneumology),
Herestraat 49 bus 706, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; e-mail: vanessa.devooght@med.
kuleuven.be
Gert Doekes, Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute for Risk Assess-
ment Sciences, Utrecht University, PO Box 80178, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Nether-
lands; e-mail: [email protected]
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List of contributors
Denyse Gautrin, Axe de recherche en santé respiratoire, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de
Montréal, 5400 Gouin Blvd West, Montreal, Canada H4J 1C5; e-mail: d.gautrin@
umontreal.ca
Dick Heederik, Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute for Risk Assess-
ment Sciences, University of Utrecht, PO Box 80178, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Neth-
erlands; e-mail: [email protected]
Paul K. Henneberger, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cen-
ters for Disease Control and Prevention, MS H2800, 1095 Willowdale Road , Mor-
gantown, WV 26505, USA; e-mail: [email protected]
Valérie Hox, O&N 1, Research Unit for Lung Toxicology (Pneumology), Herestraat
49 bus 706, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; e-mail: [email protected]
Hayley L. Jeal, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National
Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, 1b Manresa Road, London SW3 6LR,
UK; e-mail: [email protected]
Meinir G. Jones, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine,
National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, 1b Manresa Road, London
SW3 6LR, UK; e-mail: [email protected]
Francine Kauffmann, Inserm, U780 – Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Villejuif,
France; e-mail: [email protected]
Manolis Kogevinas, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL),
Barcelona, Spain; e-mail: [email protected]
Kathleen Kreiss, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1095 Wil-
lowdale Rd., MS-H 2800, Morgantown, WV, 26505, USA; e-mail: [email protected]
Jean-Luc Malo, Axe de recherche en santé respiratoire, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de
Montréal, 5400 Gouin Blvd West, Montreal, Canada H4J 1C5; e-mail: malojl@med-
dir.umontreal.ca
Rachel Nadif, Inserm, U780 – Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Villejuif, France;
e-mail: [email protected]
Evert Meijer, IRAS, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Division Environmental
and Occupational Health, Utrecht University, 3508 TD, Utrecht, Netherlands
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List of contributors
Benoit Nemery, O&N 1, Research Unit for Lung Toxicology (Pneumology), Here-
straat 49 bus 706, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; e-mail: [email protected]
Anthony Newman-Taylor, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK
Henrik Nordman, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41
aA, 00250 Helsinki, Finland; e-mail: [email protected]
Dennis Nowak, Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Envi-
ronmental Medicine, Clinical Centre, Ludwig Maximilian University, Ziemssenstr.
1, 80336 München, Germany; e-mail: [email protected]
Øyvind Omland, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occu-
pational Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark
Carrie A. Redlich , Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Pulmonary &
Critical Care Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 135 College Street, 3rd
Floor, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA; e-mail: [email protected]
Vivi Schlünssen, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occu-
pational Medicine, Aarhus University, Bartholin Allé 2, 8000 Århus C, Denmark;
e-mail: [email protected]
Torben Sigsgaard, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and
Occupational Medicine, Aarhus University, Bartholin Allé 2, 8000 Århus C, Den-
mark; e-mail: [email protected]
Lidwien A.M. Smit, Inserm, U780 – Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Villejuif,
France; e-mail: [email protected]
Peter S. Thorne, Environmental Health Sciences Research Center, University of
Iowa, Iowa City, USA
Kjell Torén, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgren-
ska University Hospital, Box 414, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden; e-mail: kjell.toren@
amm.gu.se
Olivier Vandenplas, Service de Pneumologie, Cliniques de Mont-Godinne, Univer-
sité Catholique de Louvain, B-5530, Yvoir, Belgium; e-mail: olivier.vandenplas@
uclouvain.be
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