Asthma is a very common disease in adults, including in those who work outside the home. Work-related asthma refers to asthma that is either caused by or worsened by something at work. It is very important to know whether someone has work-related asthma because there are specific ways to manage it. There are two types of work-related asthma: occupational asthma and work-exacerbated asthma. Occupational asthma is when something at work causes you to have new onset asthma. Work-exacerbated asthma (WEA) means the asthma you already have been diagnosed with is being made worse from something at work. Typically this occurs when substances present in that workplace trigger asthma symptoms. This fact sheet will tell you more about WEA.
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Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, University of Manchester, UK.
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J Occup Environ Med
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Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) School of Public Health, Houston, Texas (J.P., A.C., L.W.W., G.L.D.); Center for Pediatric Population Health, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston), Dallas, Texas (J.P.); Southwest Center for Occupational and Environmental Health, Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, School of Public Health in San Antonio, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston), San Antonio, Texas (D.G.R.d.P.); Center for Research in Occupational Health, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain (D.G.R.d.P., G.L.D.); CIBER Epidemiología y Salud Pública, Madrid, Spain (D.G.R.d.P., G.L.D.); Department of Epidemiology, Human Genetics and Environmental Sciences, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) School of Public Health, Houston, Texas (L.E.M., R.P.); Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Temple University College of Public Health, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (I.H.); Research in Patient Services, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (L.P.); Smith Scientific LLC, Houston, Texas (S.C.); Center for Research in Environmental Epidemiology (CREAL), Barcelona, Spain ( J.-P.Z.); Respiratory Health Division, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Morgantown, West Virginia (P.K.H.); and Department of Biostatistics and Data Science, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) School of Public Health, Houston, Texas (J.D.L.R.).
Objective: Health care workers are at risk for work-related asthma, which may be affected by changes in cleaning practices. We examined associations of cleaning tasks and products with work-related asthma in health care workers in 2016, comparing them with prior results from 2003.
Methods: We estimated asthma prevalence by professional group and explored associations of self-reported asthma with job-exposure matrix-based cleaning tasks/products in a representative Texas sample of 9914 physicians, nurses, respiratory/occupational therapists, and nurse aides.
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Background: Exposure to certain agents in the workplace can trigger occupational asthma or work-exacerbated asthma, both of which come under the heading of work-related asthma (WRA). Understanding the burden that WRA represents can help in the management of these patients.
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Work-related asthma consequences on socioeconomic, asthma control, quality of life, and psychological status compared with non-work-related asthma: A cross-sectional study in an upper-middle-income country.
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