Författare: Torén Kjell, Brisman Jonas
Titel: KOL också en yrkessjukdom [summary] (serie: Tema miljö och hälsa) 2007 nr 48 sid 3656-8
Ämnesord:
Yrkessjukdomar
Kroniskt obstruktiv lungsjukdom
Luftförorenande ämnen, arbetsmiljö
Yrkesmässig exponering
Riskfaktorer
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Summary:
The importance of occupational exposures as a risk factor for chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) was recognized as early as the 1950s. From the 1970s through the 1990s, multiple studies were published in which occupational exposure to gases, dusts and fumes was demonstrated to be a risk factor for COPD. In 2002, a statement from American Thoracic Society concluded that the attributable fraction of COPD due to occupational exposures was 15 to 20%. Since that further studies have supported the finding that occupational exposures are important risk factors for COPD. Should a patient with COPD remain in his/her usual job if it involves exposures to gases, dusts or fumes? Our judgement, based on clinical experience, is that most workers with COPD, as far as possible, should remain at their workplaces. Such a decision, however, must be combined with efforts to eliminate or reduce exposures to dust, gas and fumes.
Kjell Torén, Jonas Brisman
Correspondence: Kjell Torén, Arbets- och miljömedicin, Sahlgrenska Universitetssjukhuset, SE-413 45 Göteborg, Sweden
kjell.toren@amm.gu.se
