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B I R K H ~ U S E R I Progress in Inflammation Research Series Editor Prof. Michael J. Parnham, PhD Director of Science MediMlijeko d.o.o. 10000 Zagreb Croatia Advisory Board G. Z. Feuerstein (Wyeth Research, Collegeville, PA, USA) M. Pairet (Boehringer Ingelheim Pharma KG, Biberach a.d. Riss, Germany) W. van Eden (Universiteit Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands) Forthcoming titles: Inflammatory Cardiomyopathy (DCMi) – Pathogenesis and Therapy, H.-P. Schultheiß, M. Noutsias (Editors), 2010 Endothelial Dysfunction and Inflammation, A. Karsan, S. Dauphinee (Editors), 2010 Muscle, Fat and Inflammation: Sustaining a Healthy Body Composition, S.A. Stimpson, B. Han, A.N. Billin (Editors), 2011 The Inflammasomes, I. Couillin, V. Petrilli, F. Martinon (Editors), 2011 (Already published titles see last page.) Occupational Asthma Torben Sigsgaard Dick Heederik Editors Birkhäuser Editors Torben Sigsgaard Dick Heederik School of Public Health Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences Dept. of Environmental and Occupational Medicine Division of Environmental and Occupational Health Aarhus University Utrecht University Bartholin Allé 2 Yalelaan 2 8000 Århus C 3508 TD Utrecht Denmark Netherlands Library of Congress Control Number: 2009943448 Bibliographic information published by Die Deutsche Bibliothek Die Deutsche Bibliothek lists this publication in the Deutsche Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data is available in the internet at http://dnb.ddb.de ISBN 978-3-7643-8555-2 The publisher and editor can give no guarantee for the information on drug dosage and administration contained in this publication. The respective user must check its accuracy by consulting other sources of reference in each individual case. 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TCF (cid:100) Cover design: Markus Etterich, Basel Cover illustration: see p. 192, with friendly permission by Dick Heederik Printed in Germany ISBN 978-3-7643-8555-2 e-ISBN 978-3-7643-8556-9 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 www.birkhauser.ch Contents List of contributors ................................................................. vii Preface .............................................................................. xi Jean-Luc Malo and Anthony Newman-Taylor The history of research on asthma in the workplace – development, victories and perspectives .......................................................... 1 Dick Heederik and Torben Sigsgaard Epidemiology and risk factors of occupational respiratory asthma and occupational sensitization ..................................................... 17 Hayley L. Jeal, Meinir G. Jones and Paul Cullinan Epidemiology of laboratory animal allergy ........................................ 33 Kjell Torén and Paul D. Blanc Population-attributable fraction for occupation and asthma ..................... 57 André Cartier Definition and diagnosis of occupational asthma ................................. 71 Paul K. Henneberger and Carrie A. Redlich Work-exacerbated asthma ......................................................... 89 Dennis Nowak Natural history and prognosis ...................................................... 101 Xaver Baur Mechanisms of allergic occupational asthma ..................................... 111 Vanessa De Vooght, Valérie Hox, Benoit Nemery and Jeroen A.J. Vanoirbeek Mechanisms of occupational asthma caused by low molecular weight (LMW) chemicals ................................................................... 141 DCoalnipte Jn.Sts. Sirinathsinghji and Ray G. Hill Torben Sigsgaard, Øyvind Omland and Peter S. Thorne Asthma-like diseases in agriculture. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Dick Heederik and Gert Doekes Allergen and irritant exposure and exposure-response relationships ............. 185 Francine Kauffmann, Francesc Castro-Giner, Lidwien A.M. Smit, Rachel Nadif and Manolis Kogevinas Gene-environment interactions in occupational asthma .......................... 205 Denyse Gautrin and Jean-Luc Malo Asthma in apprentice workers. The birth cohort parallel: using apprentices as a powerful cohort design for studying occupational asthma .................. 229 Sherwood Burge Management of an individual worker with occupational asthma ................ 249 Olivier Vandenplas and Vinciane D’Alpaos Social consequences and quality of life in work-related asthma ................. 271 Vivi Schlünssen, Evert Meijer and Paul K. Henneberger Prevention of work-related asthma seen from the workplace and the public health perspective ....................................................... 281 Henrik Nordman Prevention and regulatory aspects of exposure to asthmagens in the workplace .................................................................... 299 Kathleen Kreiss and Dick Heederik Design, conduct and analysis of surveys on work-related asthma ............... 327 Index ................................................................................ 355 vi List of contributors Xaver Baur, Ordinariat und Zentralinstitut für Arbeitsmedizin und Maritime Medizin, Universität Hamburg, Seewartenstrasse 10, 20459 Hamburg, Germany; e-mail: [email protected] Paul D. Blanc, Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA Sherwood Burge, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham Heart- lands Hospital, Bordesley Green East, Birmingham B9 5SS, UK; e-mail: sherwood. [email protected] André Cartier, University of Montreal, Department of Medicine, Hôpital du Sacré- Coeur de Montréal, 5400 Boul. Gouin Ouest, Montréal, P.Q., Canada, H4J 1C5 Francesc Castro-Giner, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain; e-mail: [email protected] Paul Cullinan, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, 1b Manresa Road, London SW3 6LR, UK; e-mail: [email protected] Vinciane D’Alpaos, Service de Pneumologie, Cliniques de Mont-Godinne, Univer- sité Catholique de Louvain, B-5530, Yvoir, Belgium; e-mail: vinciane.dalpaos@ uclouvain. be Vanessa De Vooght, O&N 1, Research Unit for Lung Toxicology (Pneumology), Herestraat 49 bus 706, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; e-mail: vanessa.devooght@med. kuleuven.be Gert Doekes, Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute for Risk Assess- ment Sciences, Utrecht University, PO Box 80178, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Nether- lands; e-mail: [email protected] vii List of contributors Denyse Gautrin, Axe de recherche en santé respiratoire, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, 5400 Gouin Blvd West, Montreal, Canada H4J 1C5; e-mail: d.gautrin@ umontreal.ca Dick Heederik, Division of Environmental Epidemiology, Institute for Risk Assess- ment Sciences, University of Utrecht, PO Box 80178, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Neth- erlands; e-mail: [email protected] Paul K. Henneberger, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cen- ters for Disease Control and Prevention, MS H2800, 1095 Willowdale Road , Mor- gantown, WV 26505, USA; e-mail: [email protected] Valérie Hox, O&N 1, Research Unit for Lung Toxicology (Pneumology), Herestraat 49 bus 706, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; e-mail: [email protected] Hayley L. Jeal, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, 1b Manresa Road, London SW3 6LR, UK; e-mail: [email protected] Meinir G. Jones, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College, 1b Manresa Road, London SW3 6LR, UK; e-mail: [email protected] Francine Kauffmann, Inserm, U780 – Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Villejuif, France; e-mail: [email protected] Manolis Kogevinas, Centre for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain; e-mail: [email protected] Kathleen Kreiss, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, 1095 Wil- lowdale Rd., MS-H 2800, Morgantown, WV, 26505, USA; e-mail: [email protected] Jean-Luc Malo, Axe de recherche en santé respiratoire, Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal, 5400 Gouin Blvd West, Montreal, Canada H4J 1C5; e-mail: malojl@med- dir.umontreal.ca Rachel Nadif, Inserm, U780 – Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Villejuif, France; e-mail: [email protected] Evert Meijer, IRAS, Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences, Division Environmental and Occupational Health, Utrecht University, 3508 TD, Utrecht, Netherlands viii List of contributors Benoit Nemery, O&N 1, Research Unit for Lung Toxicology (Pneumology), Here- straat 49 bus 706, 3000 Leuven, Belgium; e-mail: [email protected] Anthony Newman-Taylor, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College, London, UK Henrik Nordman, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health, Topeliuksenkatu 41 aA, 00250 Helsinki, Finland; e-mail: [email protected] Dennis Nowak, Institute and Outpatient Clinic for Occupational, Social and Envi- ronmental Medicine, Clinical Centre, Ludwig Maximilian University, Ziemssenstr. 1, 80336 München, Germany; e-mail: [email protected] Øyvind Omland, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occu- pational Medicine, Aarhus University, Denmark Carrie A. Redlich , Occupational and Environmental Medicine and Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, 135 College Street, 3rd Floor, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA; e-mail: [email protected] Vivi Schlünssen, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occu- pational Medicine, Aarhus University, Bartholin Allé 2, 8000 Århus C, Denmark; e-mail: [email protected] Torben Sigsgaard, School of Public Health, Department of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Aarhus University, Bartholin Allé 2, 8000 Århus C, Den- mark; e-mail: [email protected] Lidwien A.M. Smit, Inserm, U780 – Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Villejuif, France; e-mail: [email protected] Peter S. Thorne, Environmental Health Sciences Research Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA Kjell Torén, Department of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, Sahlgren- ska University Hospital, Box 414, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden; e-mail: kjell.toren@ amm.gu.se Olivier Vandenplas, Service de Pneumologie, Cliniques de Mont-Godinne, Univer- sité Catholique de Louvain, B-5530, Yvoir, Belgium; e-mail: olivier.vandenplas@ uclouvain.be ix
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