Publications by authors named "Jose Antonio dos Santos Freire"
Background: Occupational asthma (OA) is the leading occupational respiratory disease in the area of São Paulo Municipality. Understanding its characteristics can provide useful information for better interventions.
Methods: From a joint registry of OA from five outpatient public clinics for occupational respiratory diseases, data on occupation, with job titles corrected by an expert evaluation, agents, exposure and symptom duration, and spirometry were analyzed by gender.