Asthma in Health Care Workers

Details

• Alternative Title:
  J Occup Environ Med
• Personal Author:
  White, Gretchen E. ; Mazurek, Jacek M. ; Moorman, Jeanne E.
• Description:
  Objective
  
  To estimate the prevalence of current asthma and the proportion of asthma that is work-related among health care and non–health care workers.
  
  Methods
  
  We used 2008 and 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System High Risk/Health Care Worker Module and Asthma Call-Back Survey data collected in 35 states and the District of Columbia to estimate prevalence ratios (PRs).
  
  Results
  
  Significantly more health care workers/volunteers than non–health care workers/volunteers with current asthma had asthma attacks (PR = 1.23; 95% confidence interval = 1.03 to 1.46) and asthma symptoms within the past year (PR = 1.07; 95% confidence interval = 1.00 to 1.14). There was no significant difference in the proportion of health care and non–health care workers/volunteers diagnosed with current asthma or work-related asthma.
  
  Conclusions
  
  The results of this study are consistent with previous research showing that health care workers with asthma have higher proportions of asthma attacks than non–health care workers.
  
  
• Subjects:
  Adolescent Adult Asthma Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Cross-Sectional Studies Female Health Personnel Humans Male Middle Aged Occupational Diseases Prevalence Recurrence United States Young Adult

  More +
• Source:
  J Occup Environ Med. 55(12):1463-1468
• Pubmed ID:
  24270301
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC4524494
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Funding:
  CC999999/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Volume:
  55
• Issue:
  12
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:8bd4c4693de71d8eaea2da661be2bef59f5786c1831de68efadd3e519afec7d1
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/32616/cdc_32616_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 260.47 KB ]