The clinical characteristics of patients with asthma exposed to different environmental risk factors: A cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Smoking, biomass, and occupational exposure are the main environmental risk factors for asthma. The purpose of this study was to analyze the clinical characteristics of exposure to these risk factors in patients with asthma.

Methods

This cross-sectional study enrolled patients with asthma from an outpatient department according to the Global Initiative for Asthma. Demographics, forced expiratory volume in 1 s (FEV1), FEV1%pred, FEV1/forced vital capacity (FVC), laboratory tests, asthma control test (ACT), asthma control questionnaire (ACQ) scores, and the inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) dose were recorded. A generalized linear mixed model was used to adjust for potential confounders.

Results

A total of 492 patients with asthma were included in this study. Of t

SUBMITTER: Luo L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10303691 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature