Asthma Among Manitoba Workers: Results from the Manitoba Occupational Disease Surveillance System.

ABSTRACT:

Background

This study characterized the risk of new-onset asthma among workers in Manitoba, Canada.

Methods

Accepted time loss claims from the Workers' Compensation Board of Manitoba from 2006 to 2019, containing workers' occupations and industries, were linked with administrative health data from 1996 to 2020. After restricting the cohort to the first claim per person in an occupation and applying age and coverage exclusions, the cohort comprised 142,588 person-occupation combinations. Asthma cases were identified if workers had at least two medical records for asthma (International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, 493) within a 12-month period, within the 2 years before 3 years after cohort entry. New-onset asthma was identified using a 3-year washout period. As

SUBMITTER: Rydz E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11650797 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature