Subject: bronchial provocation tests
Subject: peak expiratory flow rate
Subject: skin prick test
Year: 2007
Type: Article
Title: Occupational asthma in subjects occupationally exposed to herbal and fruit tea dust
Author: Jordan Minov
Author: Jovanka Karadzinska-Bislimovska
Author: Kristin Vasilevska
Author: Snezana Risteska-Kuc
Author: Saso Stoleski
Abstract: We performed a cross-sectional study to detect occupational asthma (OA) in 63 subjects occupationally exposed to herbal and fruit tea dust and in 63 corresponding controls. The evaluation included a questionnaire, skin prick tests to workplace and common inhalant allergens, spirometry, and histamine challenge test. The evaluation of the work-relatedness of asthma in the exposed workers was based on serial peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) measurements and bronchoprovocation tests. We found a higher prevalence of respiratory symptoms in the exposed workers, whereas spirometric parameters were significantly lower. The prevalence of sensitisation to allergens and of bronchial hyperresponsivenss (BHR) did not differ significantly between the groups. The prevalence of asthma was also similar in both groups (8.0 % vs. 6.4 %; P=0.540). Work-relatedness of symptoms was reported by all asthmatic tea workers and by no control with asthma. Significant work-related changes in PEFR diurnal variations and in non-specific BHR, suggesting allergic OA, were found in one tea worker with asthma (1.6 %). No specific workplace agent causing OA in the affected subject was identified. None of the tea workers with asthma met the criteria for medical case definition of the reactive airway dysfunction syndrome (RADS). Our data confirm workplace exposure to herbal and fruit tea dust as a risk factor for OA.
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
Relation: Arhiv za higijenu rada i toksikologiju
Identifier: oai:repository.ukim.mk:20.500.12188/9801
Identifier: 0004-1254
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12188/9801Identifier: 10.2478/v10004-007-0016-4
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