Occupational Asthma

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Abstract
Occupational asthma has become the most prevalent occupational lung disease in developed countries.15 Surveillance programs in the United Kingdom4 and in British Columbia, Canada,5 indicate that asthma is the most frequently reported occupational lung condition, accounting for 26 percent and 52 percent of such reports, respectively.Asthma affects 5 to 10 percent of people worldwide. The proportion of newly diagnosed cases of asthma in adults that are due to occupational exposure is unknown. In the United States, it has been estimated to be 15 percent,6 which is similar to estimates in Japan.7 Since the treatment of choice for occupational . . .