Occupational exposures and exacerbations of asthma and COPD-A general population study

• Published in: PloS one Vol. 15; no. 12; p. e0243826
• Main Authors: Skaaby, Stinna, Flachs, Esben Meulengracht, Lange, Peter, Schlünssen, Vivi, Marott, Jacob Louis, Brauer, Charlotte, Nordestgaard, Børge G, Sadhra, Steven, Kurmi, Om, Bonde, Jens Peter Ellekilde
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science 28.12.2020; Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Subjects: Air flow; Airway management; Allergic diseases; Asthma; Asthma - epidemiology; Asthma - pathology; Biology and Life Sciences; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Codes; Confidence intervals; Corticosteroids; Disease; Disease Progression; Dust; Emergency medical care; Emergency medical services; Environmental health; Epidemiology; Exposure; Female; Fumes; Gases; Heart; Hospitals; Humans; Inhalation Exposure; Job titles; Low molecular weights; Lung diseases; Lung diseases, Obstructive; Male; Medical research; Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; Medicine, Experimental; Middle Aged; Molecular weight; Obstructive lung disease; Occupational exposure; Occupational Exposure - adverse effects; Occupational health; Occupational health and safety; Outdoor air quality; Physical Sciences; Population; Population studies; Public health; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - epidemiology; Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive - pathology; Questionnaires; Respiratory tract diseases; Risk factors; Spirometry; Statistical analysis; Denmark; United Kingdom > UK; Aarhus Denmark

Recent studies suggest that occupational inhalant exposures trigger exacerbations of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, but findings are conflicting. We included 7,768 individuals with self-reported asthma (n = 3,215) and/or spirometric airflow limitation (forced expiratory volume in...