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ObjectivesThe aim of this study was to assess the predictors of a favourable prognosis of occupational asthma (OA) and the employment status of patients with OA at least 2 years after diagnosis.MethodsWe collected data from 204 patients who had a diagnosis of OA confirmed by a positive specific inhalation challenge. We defined OA remission as meeting the following three criteria: no asthma symptoms, no antiasthma therapy for the last year and having normal lung function at the end of follow-up. A logistic regression analysis was performed to estimate the effects of the covariates.ResultsAt 10.6±7.8-year follow-up, 60 of 204 possible patients participated in the study, and among them 17 showed OA remission. When compared with the 43 patients with persistent OA, these patients exhibited at diagnosis younger age (p=0.0039), shorter duration of symptomatic exposure (p=0.0512), better lung function expressed by higher forced vital capacity (FVC%) predicted (p=0.0164), forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1) % predicted (p=0.0066) and FEV1/FVC% (p=0.0132), and less bronchial hyper-responsiveness (p=0.0118). Nevertheless, in the multivariable model, no variables were significantly associated with OA remission. At follow-up, three individuals have retired; among the remaining 57 workers, 91.2% were still employed and 43.8% of them had continued working in the same factory after ceasing exposure to the causative agent.ConclusionsThis monocentric study did not identify a strong predictor of OA remission, but documented a high employment rate and a good job preservation over a long timeframe after diagnosis of OA mainly induced by low molecular weight agents.

This article investigates language choice in Russian popular music in the 2010s and discusses the values that non-native performers attach to singing in English. It argues that the choice to use English for non-Anglophone musicians emerges at the complex intersection of global dynamics and the intimate space of the self. Scholarship has amply discussed the adaptation of global musical trends into vernacular languages, but has tended to overlook the meanings of local music produced in the global language. Through interviews with Russian Anglophone musicians, the article reassesses the significance of personal creativity, agency, play, escapism, and bilingualism in the practice.

This article reveals the connections between Russian nationalism and Russian indie music. It argues that indie trendsetters’ views on music converge, perhaps unconsciously, with the state’s promoti...

This article analyses the main cultural and political factors that contributed to the emergence of local Anglophone music in Russia between 2008 and 2012. While Russian indie groups had extensively sung in English before (with scarce public recognition), a conjunction of circumstances encouraged the appearance of a conspicuous Russian Anglophone music scene in the Medvedev years. These were a perceived political relaxation, internally and in East–West relations; Russian economic growth and the subsequent renovation of Moscow; and the connectivity and expansion of the independent music community. The article also argues that the success of local Anglophone bands, as well as the appearance of an ‘indie’ sound and an ‘indie’ music scene (indi), was the result of a concerted effort by Russian music participants to bring and incorporate the Other – the West – into Russia's everyday life. The English language, correspondingly, functioned as a ‘tool’ for this operation.