PMID: 15216967Jun 26, 2004Paper

Potential risk factors aggravating airway allergy--aspects of involvement of airtight housing and passive smoking

[Nihon kōshū eisei zasshi] Japanese journal of public health
Fumi YoshiokaYoshio Komachi

Abstract

The involvement of tightly insulated housing conditions and passive smoking in atopic sensitization, a major risk factor for airway allergy, was examined with nonsmoking adult women and school-age children. The subjects were 382 nonsmoking healthy adult women (housewives) who underwent medical examinations for prevention of adult diseases conducted in a district of Osaka from 1995 to 1997, and 214 elementary school-children 9-12 years old living in an urban district of Osaka who underwent medical examinations at a health center in April, 2000 to prevent allergic diseases. We also examined the correlation between tightly insulated housing conditions and the amount of passive smoking based on family smoking habits with 170 children under 12 years old who had been under the care of a hospital pediatrics department between December, 1993 and May, 1994. A questionnaire was administered to all subjects to survey the housing structure (concrete/wooden housing), family smoking habits and visible mold proliferation in the kitchen in relation to airtight housing conditions, passive smoking and exposure to inhalant allergens. Atopic sensitization was assessed by positivity for serum house dust mite-specific IgE, and passive smoking was de...Continue Reading

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