Prevention of Work-related Asthma: Study Search Results

Study Details

Prevention Level	Secondary
Author	Lemiere
Study Year	2006
Country	Canada
Molecular Weight of Agent	Both
Category	Various
Agent	N/A
Occupation	Not specified
Outcome/Diagnosis	Occupational asthma and work aggravated asthma
Activity Intervention	Removal from exposure (1-4 years)
Participation Rate	Limitation: no report of participation rate 18 subjects with occupational asthma and 10 with work-aggravated asthma
Intervention Effectiveness	For subjects with occupational asthma: --Significant improvement in the respiratory symptoms and PC20. --A large decrease in the dose of inhaled corticosteroids and in the need of short-acting beta2 agonists. --A decrease in the sputum eosinophil counts (0.50%) compared with the time of their diagnosis (3.5%, p=0.1). For subjects with work-aggravated asthma: --Significant improvement in the respiratory symptoms. --A decrease of their median neutrophil counts (49.5%) compared with the time of their diagnosis (63.5%, p = 0.1)