Risk factors, predictors, and markers for work-related asthma and rhinitis

Current Allergy and Asthma Reports

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 365-372

  Gautrin, Denyse ^a   Malo, Jean Luc ^a  

^a HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustic rhinometry; Airway inflammation; Allergy; Apprentices; Asthma; Atopy; Bronchial hyperresponsiveness; Epidemiology of occupational asthma; Genetic susceptibility; Immunologic sensitization; Irritants; Job exposure matrix; Nasal lavage; Natural history of occupational asthma; Occupational allergens; Occupational asthma; Occupational exposure; Occupational rhinitis; Prediction models; Rhinitis; Work related asthma; Work related chest symptoms; Work related rhinitis; Work related symptoms of rhinitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; FORMALDEHYDE; HEXAMETHYLENE DIISOCYANATE; HLA G ANTIGEN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INTERLEUKIN 10; ISOCYANATE; LATEX; METHACHOLINE; NITRIC OXIDE;

ALLERGIC RHINITIS; ALLERGY TEST; ANTIBODY DETECTION; CELL COUNT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE MARKER; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXHALATION; FOOD INDUSTRY; FOOD PROCESSING; HEREDITY; HUMAN; LUNG FUNCTION TEST; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; NOSE MUCUS; OCCUPATIONAL ALLERGY; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PAINT INDUSTRY; PATIENT INFORMATION; PREDICTION; PROVOCATION TEST; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RADIOALLERGOSORBENT TEST; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFLAMMATION; REVIEW; RHINOMETRY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SKIN TEST; SPUTUM ANALYSIS;

ALLERGENS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ASTHMA; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; INFLAMMATION; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PROGNOSIS; RESPIRATORY SYSTEM; RHINITIS, ALLERGIC, PERENNIAL; RISK FACTORS; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 77956266567     PISSN: 15297322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11882-010-0131-1     Document Type: Review

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