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====Occupational==== {{Main|Occupational asthma}} Asthma as a result of (or worsened by) workplace exposures is a commonly reported [[occupational disease]].<ref name=Baur2012/> Many cases, however, are not reported or recognized as such.<ref>{{cite book |veditors=Kunnamo I |title=Evidence-based medicine guidelines|url=https://archive.org/details/evidencebasedmed00publ |url-access=limited |year=2005|publisher=Wiley|location=Chichester|isbn=978-0-470-01184-3|page=[https://archive.org/details/evidencebasedmed00publ/page/n250 214]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |vauthors=Frew AJ |veditors=Castro M, Kraft M |title=Clinical Asthma|url=https://archive.org/details/clinicalasthma0000unse |url-access=registration |year=2008|publisher=Mosby / Elsevier |location=Philadelphia |isbn=978-0-323-07081-2 |chapter=Chapter 42: Occupational Asthma}}</ref> It is estimated that 5–25% of asthma cases in adults are work-related.<!-- <ref name=Baur2012/> --> A few hundred different agents have been implicated, with the most common being [[isocyanates]], grain and wood dust, [[colophony]], [[soldering flux]], [[latex]], animals, and [[aldehydes]].<!-- <ref name=Baur2012/> --> The employment associated with the highest risk of problems include those who [[spray paint]], bakers and those who process food, nurses, chemical workers, those who work with animals, [[welders]], hairdressers and timber workers.<ref name=Baur2012>{{cite journal | vauthors = Baur X, Aasen TB, Burge PS, Heederik D, Henneberger PK, Maestrelli P, Schlünssen V, Vandenplas O, Wilken D | display-authors = 6 | title = The management of work-related asthma guidelines: a broader perspective | journal = European Respiratory Review | volume = 21 | issue = 124 | pages = 125–39 | date = June 2012 | pmid = 22654084 | doi = 10.1183/09059180.00004711 | others = ERS Task Force on the Management of Work-related, Asthma | pmc = 9487296 | doi-access = free }}</ref>
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