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CRC Press
13 September 2021
Asthma can be caused and aggravated by occupational factors in working adults. Agents that are responsible for occupational asthma are either sensitizers or irritants. Prevention is important to reduce the impact of the disease. This new edition of Asthma in the Workplace focuses on recent developments that are reflected by an impressive addition to the scientific literature. This fifth edition retains key elements that have made the success of previous editions: worldwide contributors, variety of topics covered, presentation of key aspects using workplace scenarios and case histories. This new comprehensive edition is intended to be of interest for health professionals, researchers, students, practitioners and various professionals involved in the assessment and management of workers exposed to occupational factors that may cause or exacerbate asthma.

Key Features

Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of work-related asthma, including historical aspects, epidemiology and risk factors, mechanisms and genetics, other types of work-related asthma conditions and variants, hypersensitivity pneumonitis, occupational urticaria and dermatitis

Assessment of the worker and workplace along with management of the worker, prevention and medicolegal aspects

Detailed information about specific agents, including a variety of high-molecular-weight and low-molecular-weight agents

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Imprint:   CRC Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Edition:   5th edition
Dimensions:   Height: 280mm,  Width: 210mm, 
Weight:   694g
ISBN:   9781032043425
ISBN 10:   1032043423
Pages:   356
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Susan M. Tarlo, Professor of Medicine, University Health Network and St Michael’s Hospital, Toronto; Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada Olivier Vandenplas, Professor of Medicine, Head Department of Chest Medicine, Centre hospitalier Universitaire UCL Namur, Université Catholique de Louvain, Yvoir, Belgium David I. Bernstein, Professor Emeritus of Medicine, Division of Immunology, Allergy and Rheumatology, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA Jean-Luc Malo, Professor of Medicine (retired), Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal and Université de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

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