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Work-Related Asthma

• 12.1% of Michigan adults with current asthma have ever told a health professional or were ever told by health professional that their asthma was work-related. [1]
  
  
• People who work in manufacturing have highest risk of getting work-related asthma. [2]
  
  
• The most common exposures associated with work-related asthma are isocyanates and metal working fluids. [2]
  
  

Sources:

Michigan Asthma Call-Back Survey, 2005. Rosenman KD, Reilly MJ, and Kalinowski DJ. Annual Reports of Occupational Disease.

For more information about work-related asthma in Michigan, please review:

• The current Annual Report for Tracking Work-Related Asthma (http://oem.msu.edu/AnnualReports.aspx)
• Section 3 of "Epidemiology of Asthma in Michigan: 2004 Surveillance Report"

Last Updated 03/09/2009