ALLERGY, cilt.53, sa.11, ss.1096-1100, 1998 (SCI-Expanded)
Background Occupational asthma (OA) is respiratory disorder characterized by airway hyperreactivity caused by agents present in the workplace. For determination of the prevalence of OA among car and furniture painters exposed to isocyanate id the center of Eskisehir, Turkey, a clinical and epidemiologic prospective study in three phases was done, incorporating 312 (89.4%) of the painters.