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Workplace Conditions Can Cause Asthma
Usually we think of kids when we think of asthma, but adult asthma is also a big problem, with 10.2 million adults in the US afflicted. Many of these cases don't appear until adulthood. For adult-onset asthma, recent research suggests that the workplace environment may be a cause. The December 2000 issue of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine reported on research by Dr. Anthony R. Johnson of the University of Sydney in Australia with colleagues in Canada. In a random survey of adults, they found those who had asthma that began in adulthood. In these adult-onset asthmatics, more than one in three were deemed to have "possible" or "probable" asthma linked to their place of work. In the majority of cases, the suspected causes of asthma were latex, flour, grain and vegetable gum. Nursing, clerical jobs and food preparation occupations were most commonly linked to asthma. The researchers estimate that reducing exposure to substances known to trigger asthma attacks could prevent almost one in five cases of adult-onset asthma.
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