Key takeaways:

Inhalation exposures from heavy equipment maintenance significantly heightened the likelihood for dyspnea and wheeze.

The odds for wheeze significantly rose with aircraft maintenance inhalation exposures.

Perspective from Lauren M. Zell-Baran, PhD, MPH

Inhalational exposures during routine military heavy equipment maintenance and aircraft maintenance heightened the odds for wheeze, according to results published in JAMA Network Open .

“Clinicians should broaden their evaluation of veterans presenting with respiratory symptoms,” Reza Hosseini, MD, MPH , assistant professor of family medicine at Upstate University Hospital, medical director of Central and Eastern New York Occupational Health Clinical Center and researcher collaborator at Yale University School of

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