Respiratory disease in United States farmers.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Farmers may be at increased risk for adverse respiratory outcomes compared with the general population due to their regular exposures to dusts, animals and chemicals. However, early life farm exposures to microbial agents may result in reduced risk. Understanding respiratory disease risk among farmers and identifying differences between farmers and other populations may lead to better understanding of the contribution of environmental exposures to respiratory disease risk in the general population.

Methods

We compared the prevalence of self-reported respiratory outcomes in 43548 participants from the Agricultural Health Study (AHS), a prospective cohort of farmers and their spouses from Iowa and North Carolina, with data from adult participants in the National Hea

SUBMITTER: Hoppin JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4542002 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature