Asthma Experience in an Occupational and Environmental Medicine ClinicLow-Dose Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome
作者:
Howard Kipen,
Richard Blume,
Douglas Hutt,
期刊:
Journal of Occupational Medicine
(OVID Available online 1994)
卷期:
Volume 36,
issue 10
页码: 1133-1137
ISSN:0096-1736
年代: 1994
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
The etiology of adult-onset asthma is incompletely understood. Highintensity exposure to irritants is one accepted risk factor and such cases are termed Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome. The contribution to asthma of less intense and less acute exposure to irritants remains to be clarified. We report on 10 cases of nonsensitization adult-onset asthma in settings of exposure to noticeable but distinctly “tolerable” levels of inhalation irritants. This series of 10 cases represent 31% of verified asthma cases seen in our environmental and occupational medicine referral clinic over a 5-year period. We believe further exploration of this phenomenon of low dose Reactive Airways Dysfunction Syndrome is warranted.
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