Working place condition a causative factor in developing asthma

The University of Helsinki in Finland concludes in the American Journal of Epidemiology that a number of materials used in furnishing indoor environments may emit pollutants with the capacity to irritate the airways leading to increase adults' risk of developing asthma.

The researchers fund that workers exposed to plastic wall coverings on the job would had an increased asthma risk of 2.43-fold while people who worked in offices with wall-to-wall carpeting were 1.73 times more likely to develop asthma. In the case of mold being present at a person's workplace with wall-to-wall carpeting, the risk of developing asthma was worst (more than quadrupled).