Occupational and work aggravated asthma
1) Occupational and work aggravated asthma
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- 1 in 6 people of working age who develop asthma have work related asthma.
- This includes new onset asthma or a re-occurrence of pre existing disease.
- This is the commonest occupational lung disease in westernised countries.
- The incidence is dependent on the job environment and the hazards there is exposure to.
- There may be clusters of people in some occupations who have asthma which can be due to their work environment.