E-cigarette use and respiratory disorder in an adult sample.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Little evidence is available on the association of e-cigarettes with health indices. We investigated the association of e-cigarette use with diagnosed respiratory disorder among adults in data from the Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance Survey (BRFSS).

Methods

The 2016 Hawaii BRFSS, a cross-sectional random-dial telephone survey, had 8087 participants; mean age was 55 years. Items asked about e-cigarette use, cigarette smoking, and being diagnosed by a health professional with (a) asthma or (b) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Multivariable analyses tested associations of e-cigarette use with the respiratory variables controlling for smoking and for demographic, physical, and psychosocial variables.

Results

Controlling for the covariates and smoking

SUBMITTER: Wills TA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6312492 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature