Occupational Asthma Reference

Liebetrau G, Epidemiology of predominantly occupationally-induced bronchopulmonary diseases [German], Pneumologie, 1994;48:391-394,

Keywords: surveillance, Germany

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Abstract

During the last years occupational diseases are of increasing interest. This lead to an increased sensibility which results in a continuous increase of the number of announcements of suspicion of an underlying occupational diseases. The rate of cases first remunerated remains nevertheless constant. The number of diseases caused by inorganic and organic dusts and the obstructive airway-diseases increase despite of the continuous decrease of silicosis. Among the diseases first remunerated in 1990, occupational diseases caused by inorganic dusts took up the first place (31.6%). As for the deaths in 1990, 91% are due to diseases caused by inorganic dusts

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