Asthma increase among farmers: A 12-year follow-up

Upsala Journal of Medical Sciences

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 60-71

  Rask Andersen, Anna ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Agricultural Workers' Diseases; allergy; Alveolitis; asthma; Extrinsic Allergic; Farmer's Lung; farming; Longitudinal Studies; occupational disease; occupational exposure

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN E;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ALLERGIC PNEUMONITIS; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; SWEDEN; VITAL CAPACITY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGRICULTURAL WORKERS' DISEASES; ALVEOLITIS, EXTRINSIC ALLERGIC; ASTHMA; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FORCED EXPIRATORY VOLUME; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN E; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SWEDEN; VITAL CAPACITY;

EID: 79951789621     PISSN: 03009734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/03009734.2010.503287     Document Type: Article

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