Prevalence of Asthma Among Youth on Hispanic-Operated Farms in the United States – 2000

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• Personal Author:
  Mazurek JM ; Syamlal G
• Description:
  The objective of this study was to estimate prevalence of asthma and asthma attacks among youth (0--19 years old) working and/or living on Hispanic-operated farms. The 2000 U.S. Minority Farm Operator Childhood Agricultural Injury Survey (M-CAIS) data were used to calculate prevalence of asthma, asthma attacks and serious asthma attacks among youth (0 to 19 years) living on Hispanic-operated farms. Age-specific asthma prevalence rates with corresponding 95% confidence intervals (CIs) were calculated for working and nonworking youth. In 2000, an estimated 17,573 youth lived on Hispanic-operated farms; 7.4% had asthma ever diagnosed, 8.1% had an asthma attack while at work in the last year, and 1.4% had a serious asthma attack. Asthma prevalence was highest among youth aged 16-19 (9.1%), males (8.6%), and those driving tractors (9.7%). Serious asthma attacks that required an emergency room visit or hospitalization in the last year were most prevalent among youth aged 0-9 years (1.8%), males (1.7%), and those riding horses (1.7%). Compared with nonworking youth, prevalence of asthma (8.9% versus 6.1%; p <0.05) and serious asthma attacks (1.6% versus 1.3%; p > 0.05) was higher among working youth. Prevalence of asthma attacks in the last year while at work was also significantly higher among males than females (8.6% versus 6.0%; p < 0.05) and among youth living on livestock farms than among youth on crop farms (9.4% versus 7.4%; p < 0.05). These findings contribute to the limited information on asthma among youth working on Hispanic-operated farms, and indicate the need for asthma prevention programs on farms and intervention studies targeting farming youth populations. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Aging Agriculture Asthma Asthma, Occupational Occupational Health Race Factors Respiratory System Respiratory Tract Diseases Safety
• Keywords:
  Age-groups Agricultural-industry Agricultural-workers Asthma Author Keywords: Agricultural Workers Breathing Bronchial-asthma Children Hispanics Racial-factors Respiratory-system-disorders Surveillance Youth

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• ISSN:
  1059-924X
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  OSHA Region 3 ; West Virginia
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  DRDS - Division of Respiratory Disease Studies ; DSR - Division of Safety Research
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  155-164
• Volume:
  13
• Issue:
  3
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20034806
• Citation:
  J Agromedicine 2008 Jul; 13(3):155-164
• Contact Point Address:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Division of Respiratory Disease Studies, Mail Stop HG900.2, 1095 Willowdale Road, Morgantown, WV 26505
• Email:
  gos2@cdc.gov
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2008
• Peer Reviewed:
  True
• Source Full Name:
  Journal of Agromedicine
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:96d4a00beb898dcd925af17d6b38b6ea39079eeb1effc597fe482147518e048eef92fecd3392ca0e06df7a302c791dacc380c75b39caffcc4371db6217dbfb46
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