Occupational risk factors associated with work-exacerbated asthma in Quebec

Occupational and Environmental Medicine

Volumn 69, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 901-907

  Lemiere, Catherine ^a   Bégin, Denis ^b   Camus, Michel ^b   Forget, Amélie ^a   Boulet, Louis Philippe ^c   Gérin, Michel ^b  

^a HÔPITAL DU SACRÉ COEUR DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^c LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; MINERAL; PROPELLANT; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOLVENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DUST; FEMALE; FUME; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL ASTHMA; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OCCUPATIONAL HAZARD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; WORKER; WORKPLACE;

ADULT; AEROSOLS; AIR POLLUTANTS; AMMONIA; ANIMALS; ASTHMA; ASTHMA, OCCUPATIONAL; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANTS; ENZYMES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRITANTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINERALS; OCCUPATIONAL DISEASES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PARTICULATE MATTER; QUEBEC; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SILICON DIOXIDE; SOLVENTS; VEHICLE EMISSIONS;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84870053508     PISSN: 13510711     EISSN: 14707926     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/oemed-2012-100663     Document Type: Article

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