Prevalence and risk factors for airway diseases in farmers - Summary of results of the European Farmers' Project

Annals of Agriculture and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 207-213

  Radon, Katja ^a   Monso, Eduard ^b   Weber, Christoph ^c   Danuser, Brigitta ^c   Iversen, Martin ^d   Opravil, Ulrike ^e   Donham, Kelley ^f   Hartung, Jörg ^g   Pedersen, Soeren ^h   Garz, Susanne ⁱ   Blainey, David ^j   Rabe, Uta ^k   Nowak, Dennis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^e Centre of Work Related Diseases   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE HANNOVER   (Germany)

^h Research Centre Bygholm   (Denmark)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

^j BROOMFIELD HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^k Hospital of Respiratory Diseases   (Germany)

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Author keywords

Allergies; Animal farmer; Chronic bronchitis; Crop farmer; Cross sectional study; Endotoxins; Farmer's lung; Occupational asthma

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ALLERGY; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CHRONIC BRONCHITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; DENMARK; EUROPE; FARMER LUNG; GERMANY; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SPAIN; SWITZERLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ANIMALS; CATTLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EUROPE; HUMANS; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PLANTS; POULTRY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESPIRATORY FUNCTION TESTS; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASES; RISK FACTORS; SWINE;

ANIMALIA; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 0036912667     PISSN: 12321966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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