Occupation exposure accounts for 16% of adult-onset asthma in prospective population studies

Confirms population attributable risk of occupation as a cause of adult onset asthma, mostly in the under 44's, from population studies. estimated PAR 16%. Also provides data for hypersensitivity pneumonitis (occupational burden 19%), COPD (14%), Alveolar proteinosis (29%0, IPF (26%), Community acquired pneumonia (10%), sarcoid and other granulomatous diseases (30%).

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	Blanc PD, Annesi-Maesano I, Balmes JR, Cummings KJ, Fishwick D, Miedinger D, Murgia N, Naidoo RN, Reynolds CJ, Sigsgaard T, Torén K, Vinnikov D, and Redlich CA, The Occupational Burden of Nonmalignant Respiratory Diseases. An Official American Thoracic Society and European Respiratory Society Statement, Am J Respir Crit Care Med, 2019;199:1312-1334,doi.org/10.1164/rccm.201904-0717ST

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