Nasal complaints and signs of disease in farmers - A methodological study

Acta Oto-Laryngologica

Volumn 128, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 193-200

  Holmström, Mats ^a   Thelin, Anders ^b   Kolmodin Hedman, Birgitta ^c   Van Hage, Marianne ^c  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Acoustic rhinometry; Allergy; Farmers; Nasal lavage; Nasal symptoms; Olfactory tests; Rhinomanometry

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MYELOPEROXIDASE; TRYPTASE;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ARTICLE; ATOPY; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROP PRODUCTION; DAIRYING; FEMALE; GRAIN; HUMAN; HYPERSENSITIVITY; INFLAMMATION; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NOSE DISEASE; NOSE MUCUS; NOSE OBSTRUCTION; NOSE POLYP; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PARAMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHINITIS; RHINOMETRY; RISK FACTOR; STANDARD; SWINE; SYMPTOM;

ADULT; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ALBUMINS; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; CEREALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EOSINOPHIL CATIONIC PROTEIN; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NASAL LAVAGE FLUID; NASAL MUCOSA; NASAL OBSTRUCTION; NASAL POLYPS; PEROXIDASE; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RHINOMETRY, ACOUSTIC; SWEDEN;

EID: 38349081631     PISSN: 00016489     EISSN: 16512553     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00016480701477644     Document Type: Article

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