Location
Hôpital du Sacré-Cœur de MontréalCategory
RespiratorySummary
This study aimed to assess how psychological stress impacts the experience asthma symptoms (e.g., breathlessness, cough) and lung function (e.g., daily variability of peak flow) in the workplace and to identify the physiological mechanisms underlying this association.
Occupational asthma, Stress lung function
The results from this study could get a thorough understanding of the potential dampening effects of stress on the development of asthma at work, and better recognition of how psychological stress is a risk factor in people with occupational asthma.
2009-2011
Principal investigator : Simon Bacon
Co-investigator : Kim L. Lavoie, PhD, Manon Labrecque, MD, Catherine Lemière, MD, Jean-Luc Malo, MD, André Cartier, MD, Denyse Gautrin, PhD, Paola Lanfranchi, PhD
, Ph.D.
Project coordinator : Maxine Boudreau
MBMC coordinator : Guillaume Lacoste
Guillaume Lacoste, MBMC coordinator
(514) 338-2222 ext. 3989
spear@mbmc-cmcm.ca
Asthma in the Workplace Centre, Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR)
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