Do young adults with childhood asthma avoid occupational exposures at first hire?

European Respiratory Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1043-1049

  Dumas, O ^a,b   Smit, L A M ^h   Pin, I ^c,d,e   Kromhout, H ^h   Siroux, V ^c,d   Nadif, R ^a,b   Vermeulen, R ^h   Heederik, D ^h   Hery, M ^f   Choudat, D ^g   Kauffmann, F ^a,b   Le Moual, N ^a,b  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION HEALTH   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c INSERM   (France)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^e GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^f INSTITUT NATIONAL DE RECHERCHE ET DE SÉCURITÉ   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^h UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Asthma; Healthy worker hire effect; Longitudinal study; Occupational exposure; Selection bias

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DUST; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EMPLOYMENT; FEMALE; FUME; GAS; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; LUNG FUNCTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; TRAINING; TREND STUDY; WORKER;

EID: 79955666764     PISSN: 09031936     EISSN: 13993003     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00057610     Document Type: Article

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