Occupational exposures and asthma-COPD overlap in a clinical cohort of adult-onset asthma

Minna Tommola; Pinja Ilmarinen; Leena E Tuomisto; Lauri Lehtimäki; Hannu Kankaanranta

doi:10.1183/23120541.00191-2019

Occupational exposures and asthma-COPD overlap in a clinical cohort of adult-onset asthma

ERJ Open Res. 2019 Oct 21;5(4):00191-2019. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00191-2019. eCollection 2019 Oct.

Authors

Minna Tommola^{1

2}, Pinja Ilmarinen¹, Leena E Tuomisto¹, Lauri Lehtimäki^{3

4}, Hannu Kankaanranta^{1

4}

Affiliations

¹ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Seinäjoki Central Hospital, Seinäjoki, Finland.
² Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Central Finland Central Hospital, Jyväskylä, Finland.
³ Allergy Centre, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
⁴ Faculty of Medicine and Health Technology, Tampere University, Tampere, Finland.

Abstract

Occupational exposure to vapours, gases, dusts or fumes (VGDF) increases the prevalence of asthma-COPD overlap (ACO) in adult-onset asthma. VGDF exposure is independently associated with ACO and an additive effect with smoking is proposed. http://bit.ly/2LiMiXW.