Nurses at increased risk of occupational asthma in Texas

Nurses cleaning medical instruments doing general cleaning increased the risk of new-onset asthma. Use of powdered latex gloves during 1992–2000 was associated with 1.6 times the odds of reported asthma, but was not increased after this suggesting that latex allergy was under control

References

	Arif AA, Delclos GL, Serra C, Occupational exposures and asthma among nursing professionals, Occup Environ Med, 2009;66:274-278,

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