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Chest, Vol 96, 297-300, Copyright © 1989 by American College of Chest Physicians
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SM Tarlo and I Broder
Gage Research Institute, University of Toronto, Canada.
A retrospective review was performed on the files of 154 consecutive workers assessed for occupational asthma to clarify the relative frequency of asthma induced by irritants in the workplace and to determine whether such asthma was clearly distinguishable from other forms of occupational asthma. Fifty-nine workers were considered to have occupational asthma. A subset of ten had a history consistent with asthma initiated by exposure to high concentrations of an irritant, had persistent symptoms for an average of five years when seen, demonstrated increased reactivity to methacholine, and gave no prior history of pulmonary complaints. These ten had a lower incidence of atopy (20 percent vs 58 percent) and a more frequent history of smoking (80 percent vs 38 percent) than the other subjects with occupational asthma but did not differ in average latency (5.9 years vs 5.7 years). Our findings suggest that irritant-induced asthma is not uncommon, and those affected may have different baseline characteristics from others with occupational asthma.
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