Cleaning-product-related asthma concern for hospital workers

Research suggests that exposure to cleaning products, particularly those containing decalcifiers and ammonia, may increase the risk for asthma in female hospital workers. Orianne Dumas (Université Paris-Sud, Villejuif, France) and colleagues assessed the association between exposure to various cleaning products and asthma in a group of 179 hospital workers (136 women) who had a high frequency of exposure to cleaning products at work and a reference population of 545 nonexposed individuals (333 women).
 
Exposure was assessed using self-report, expert assessment, and an asthma-specific job-exposure matrix (JEM). In the hospital workers, exposure to cleaning tasks/disinfection and associated products occurred at a frequency ranging from 81% to 88% in women and 55% to 80% in men according to self-report and expert assessment.

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