Occupational asthma in welders and painters

Tuberkuloz ve Toraks

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 64-70

  Temel, Orhan ^a   Şakar Coşkun, Ayşin ^a   Yaman, Nesrin ^a   Sarioǧlu, Nurhan ^a   Alkaç, Çayan ^a   Konyar, Işin ^a   Özgen Alpaydin, Aylin ^a   Çelik, Pinar ^a   Cengiz Özyurt, Beyhan ^a   Keskin, Emine ^b   Yorgancioǧlu, Arzu ^a  

^a CELAL BAYAR UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b Bianchi Bicycle Factory   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Occupational asthma; Painting; Welding

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BICYCLE; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUGHING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE COURSE; DYSPNEA; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OFFICE WORKER; PAINTER; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; SPIROMETRY; SPUTUM; SYMPTOM; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TURKEY (BIRD); WELDING; WHEEZING; AIR POLLUTANT; ASTHMA; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; SMOKING; TURKEY;

AIR POLLUTANT; PAINT;

ADULT; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; ASTHMA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; PAINT; PEAK EXPIRATORY FLOW RATE; SMOKING; TURKEY; WELDING;

EID: 77951696221     PISSN: 04941373     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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