Epidémiologie de l'asthme professionnel en Belgique.
(2005) Revue des Maladies Respiratoires — Vol. 22, n° 3, p. 421-430 (2005)
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- INTRODUCTION: A national surveillance programme of occupational asthma was set up to estimate the incidence and identify the causes of this disorder in Belgium. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The programme was based on the voluntary notification of new cases of occupational asthma by chest specialists and occupational physicians during the period 2000-2002. RESULTS: 92% of the reported cases included occupational asthma of an immunological type and 8% bronchial irritability. According to the opinion of the reporting physicians the diagnosis was considered certain in 39%, probable in 29% and possible in 32% of cases. On the basis of these notifications the mean annual incidence of occupational asthma is estimated as 23.5 cases per million workers (95% confidence interval 19.2-28.8). The most frequently incriminated substances were isocyanates (16%), cereals (12%) and latex (10%). At the time of diagnosis 38% of patients had not applied for compensation. CONCLUSION: The results of this programme of notification of occupational asthma agree with the data available from other countries and provide information complementary to the medico-legal statistics.
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Vandenplas, O., Larbanois, A., Bugli, C., Kempeneers, E., & Nemery, B. (2005). Epidémiologie de l’asthme professionnel en Belgique. Revue des Maladies Respiratoires, 22(3), 421-430. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0761-8425(05)85570-6 (Original work published 2005)