ArticleOccupational and environmental medicine2019
A nationwide follow-up study of occupational organic dust exposure and risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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- The effect of occupational exposure to organic dust on lung function parameters among African industrial workers: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Comparative health risk assessment of occupational dust exposure in industrial sectors using multiple models and monte carlo simulation.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Immunotoxicity of Inhalable Organic Dust Samples Based on In Vitro Analysis of Human Respiratory Epithelial Cells.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Article
- Respiratory Diseases Associated With Organic Dust Exposure.The journal of allergy and clinical immunology. In practice · 2024Review
- Risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in a large cohort of Ontario, Canada workers.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Association of low attenuation area scores with pulmonary function and clinical prognosis in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.Open life sciences · 2024Article
- The association of forced expiratory volume in one second with occupational exposures in a longitudinal study of adults in a rural community in Iowa.International archives of occupational and environmental health · 2023Article
- Professional cleaning and risk of asthma - a Danish nationwide register-based study.Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2022Article
- Organic dust exposure induces stress response and mitochondrial dysfunction in monocytic cells.Histochemistry and cell biology · 2021Article
- Pre-exposure to hydrogen sulfide modulates the innate inflammatory response to organic dust.Cell and tissue research · 2021Article
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- Dust exposure and the impact on hospital readmission of farming and wood industry workers for asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).Scandinavian journal of work, environment & health · 2021Article
- Occupational exposures and exacerbations of asthma and COPD-A general population study.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo study exposure-response relations between cumulative organic dust exposure and incident chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) among subjects employed in the Danish farming and wood industry.
methodsWe studied exposure-response relations between cumulative organic dust exposure and incident COPD (1997-2013) among individuals born during 1950-1977 in Denmark ever employed in the farming or wood industry (n=1 75 409). Industry-specific employment history (1964-2007), combined with time-dependent farming and wood industry-specific exposure matrices defined cumulative exposure. We used logistic regression analysis with discrete survival function adjusting for age, sex and calendar year. Adjustment for smoking status was explored in a subgroup of 4023 with smoking information available.
resultsCumulative organic dust exposure was inversely associated with COPD (adjusted rate ratios (RR
conclusionsOur findings show no increased risk of COPD with increasing occupational exposure to organic dust in the farming or wood industry. Potential residual confounding by smoking can, however, not be ruled out.
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