Dust exposure and the impact on hospital readmission of farming and wood industry workers for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
OBJECTIVES: It is still not well established how occupational air pollutants affect the prognosis of asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). This study uses nationwide Danish registers and quantitative dust industry exposure matrices (IEM) for the farming and wood industries to estim...
Main Authors: | Anne Vested, Henrik A Kolstad, Ioannis Basinas, Alex Burdorf, Grethe Elholm, Dick Heederik, Gitte H Jacobsen, Hans Kromhout, Øyvind Omland, Inger Schaumburg, Torben Sigsgaard, Jesper M Vestergaard, Inge M Wouters, Vivi Schlünssen |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nordic Association of Occupational Safety and Health (NOROSH)
2021-03-01
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Series: | Scandinavian Journal of Work, Environment & Health |
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Online Access: |
https://www.sjweh.fi/show_abstract.php?abstract_id=3926
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