Occupational airway diseases are common workplace injuries thatinclude occupational asthma, bronchitis, reactive airways dysfunctionsyndrome, and byssinosis (an airway disease affecting textileworkers). The population prevalence of these syndromes is notknown with certainty, but some studies suggest that as manyas 15 percent of adult patients with asthma have airway diseaseattributable to workplace conditions.1 Within different industries,the prevalence of these syndromes varies from sporadic to frequent(10 percent or greater). The mechanisms of these injuries mayinvolve immune sensitization, but often the disease mechanismsare unknown and are presumed to involve nonallergic, irritant-mediatedresponses to inhaled . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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