Occupational asthma

List of contributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi Jean-Luc Malo and Anthony Newman-Taylor The history of research on asthma in the workplace – development, victories and perspectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Dick Heederik and Torben Sigsgaard Epidemiology and risk factors of occupational respiratory asthma and occupational sensitization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Hayley L. Jeal, Meinir G. Jones and Paul Cullinan Epidemiology of laboratory animal allergy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Kjell Torén and Paul D. Blanc Population-attributable fraction for occupation and asthma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 André Cartier Definition and diagnosis of occupational asthma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Paul K. Henneberger and Carrie A. Redlich Work-exacerbated asthma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Dennis Nowak Natural history and prognosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101 Xaver Baur Mechanisms of allergic occupational asthma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 Vanessa De Vooght, Valérie Hox, Benoit Nemery and Jeroen A.J. Vanoirbeek Mechanisms of occupational asthma caused by low molecular weight (LMW) chemicals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141Torben Sigsgaard, طyvind Omland and Peter S. Thorne Asthma-like diseases in agriculture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Dick Heederik and Gert Doekes Allergen and irritant exposure and exposure-response relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185 Francine Kauffmann, Francesc Castro-Giner, Lidwien A.M. Smit, Rachel Nadif and Manolis Kogevinas Gene-environment interactions in occupational asthma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205 Denyse Gautrin and Jean-Luc Malo Asthma in apprentice workers. The birth cohort parallel: using apprentices as a powerful cohort design for studying occupational asthma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229 Sherwood Burge Management of an individual worker with occupational asthma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 Olivier Vandenplas and Vinciane D’Alpaos Social consequences and quality of life in work-related asthma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271 Vivi Schlünssen, Evert Meijer and Paul K. Henneberger Prevention of work-related asthma seen from the workplace and the public health perspective . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 Henrik Nordman Prevention and regulatory aspects of exposure to asthmagens in the workplace . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 Kathleen Kreiss and Dick Heederik Design, conduct and analysis of surveys on work-related asthma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327