ABSTRACT: Background and objective: Occupational asthma is responsible for 5 to 20% of adult asthma cases globally, and car painters are among the most at-risk workers. The objective of this study was ...

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Asthma is the most common chronic disease of childhood and, in the latter part of the 20th century, reached epidemic proportions. Asthma is generally believed to result from gene-environment ...

Victoria's chief health officer says there is a high risk of epidemic thunderstorm asthma in parts of regional Victoria. Thunderstorm asthma is when high amounts of grass pollen and a certain type ...

[11,12,13,14,15] Exposure to isocyanates, natural rubber latex, animal danders, platinum salts, and a host of other occupational agents have been shown to initiate or aggravate asthma. [16,17,18 ...

On November 19, as many as 22 of the 35 air quality monitoring stations in Delhi recorded an air quality index (AQI) reading ...