Table 2.

Incidence of occupational asthma and rhinitis

Reference/agent	Subjects N	Years/duration (yrs) of follow-up	Incidence of OA* (× 100 person years)	Incidence of OR** (× 100 person years)
Cullinan el al., 1999/laboratory animals [38]	342	1990–1993/2.7	3.5	7.3
Rodier et al., 2003/laboratory animals [39]	387	1993–1995/3.7	2.7	12.1
Draper et al., 2003/laboratory animals [54]	17300	1999–2000/1.0	0.2	0.3
Cullinan et al., 2001/flour [40]		1990–1993/3.3	4.1	11.8
Gautrin et al., 2002/flour [41]		1993–1997/1.4	NA***	13.1
Archambault et al., 2001/latex [53]		1993–1995/2.7	1.8	0.7

*OA: occupational asthma; **OR, occupational rhinitis ; ***NA, not available.