American College of Chest Physicians issues consensus statement on diagnosing and treating work-related asthma

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• Personal Author:
  Pechter E
• Description:
  This issue of the Occupational Lung Disease Bulletin provides a summary of the recently published consensus statement on work-related asthma (WRA) by the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP). The statement was published as a supplement to the September 2008 issue of CHEST. Physicians should ask all adults with new onset or worsening asthma about their work, according to a recent publication by the American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP). ACCP convened an expert panel, including 17 occupational medicine physicians, allergists, and pulmonologists. After a rigorous review of evidence based practice, they issued a consensus statement in September 2008, noting that up to 25% of adult asthmatic patients may have work-related asthma. It is estimated that 10-15% of new onset adult asthma is initiated by workplace exposures - and another 10% of adults with pre-existing asthma have work-aggravated asthma. They noted that adults may develop asthma from sensitizers and irritants, naming this de novo asthma occupational asthma (OA). [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Age Factors Asthma Asthma, Occupational Hazardous Substances Health Care Facilities Workforce And Services Health Personnel Hypersensitivity Occupational Diseases Occupational Exposure Occupational Health Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety Surveys And Questionnaires Workplace

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• Keywords:
  Age-factors Bronchial-asthma Disease-prevention Employee-exposure Health-care Health-hazards Health-surveys Medical-monitoring Medical-personnel Medical-screening Occupational-diseases Occupational-exposure Occupational-health Occupational-medicine Occupational-respiratory-disease Physicians Pulmonary-system-disorders Respiratory-system-disorders Sensitization Surveillance-programs Work-environment Worker-health Workers

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• Publisher:
  Massachusetts Department of Public Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Cooperative Agreement
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  California ; Colorado ; Connecticut ; Florida ; Illinois ; Massachusetts ; Minnesota ; New York ; Ohio ; OSHA Region 1 ; OSHA Region 2 ; OSHA Region 4 ; OSHA Region 5 ; OSHA Region 8 ; OSHA Region 9
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-2
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20042634
• Citation:
  SENSOR Occup Lung Dis Bull 2008 Dec; :1-2
• Contact Point Address:
  Massachusetts Department of Public Health, Occupational Health Surveillance Program, 250 Washington Street, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02108
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2009
• NORA Priority Area:
  Healthcare and Social Assistance
• Performing Organization:
  Massachusetts State Department of Public Health
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20050701
• Source Full Name:
  SENSOR Occupational Lung Disease Bulletin
• End Date:
  20260630
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:191d7462791a6a1bdecae08b8c99fc17fe3b86dac65096e09cfd70cf61a8d48300c1571e622a1f05a3de99b9fcc3a10c2d60d22b9f823862e0000f2937b94e5f
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/194800/cdc_194800_DS1.pdf
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