The combined effect of exposures to vapours, gases, dusts, fumes and tobacco smoke on current asthma.

ABSTRACT: Smoking, exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and occupational exposure to vapours, gases, dusts or fumes (VGDF) increase asthma symptoms. The impact of combined exposure is less well established. We aimed to evaluate the risk of combined exposure to smoking, ETS and VGDF on the prevalence of current asthma and asthma-related symptoms with a postal survey among a random population of 16,000 adults, aged 20-69 years (response rate 51.5%). The 836 responders with physician-diagnosed asthma were included in the analysis. Of them, 81.9% had current asthma defined as physician-diagnosed asthma with current asthma medication use or reported symptoms. There was a consistently increasing trend in the prevalence of current asthma by increased exposure. The highest prevalence of multiple sy

SUBMITTER: Hisinger-Molkanen H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9366564 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature