Low socioeconomic status relates to asthma and wheeze, especially in women
Low socioeconomic status (SES) has been associated with asthma and wheezing. Occupational group, educational level and income are commonly used indicators for SES, but no single indicator can illustrate the entire complexity of SES. The aim was to investigate how different indicators of SES associat...
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ftunivhelsihelda:oai:helda.helsinki.fi:10138/324041 2024-01-07T09:45:33+01:00 Low socioeconomic status relates to asthma and wheeze, especially in women Christian, Schyllert Lindberg, Anne Hedman, Linnea Stridsman, Caroline Andersson, Martin Ilmarinen, Pinja Piirilä, Päivi Krokstad, Steinar Lundbäck, Bo Rönmark, Eva Backman, Helena HUS Medical Imaging Center Department of Diagnostics and Therapeutics Clinicum University of Helsinki 2021-01-05T10:03:01Z 11 application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10138/324041 eng eng European respiratory society 10.1183/23120541.00258-2019 Christian , S , Lindberg , A , Hedman , L , Stridsman , C , Andersson , M , Ilmarinen , P , Piirilä , P , Krokstad , S , Lundbäck , B , Rönmark , E & Backman , H 2020 , ' Low socioeconomic status relates to asthma and wheeze, especially in women ' , ERJ Open Research , vol. 6 , no. 3 , ARTN 00258-2019 . https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00258-2019 ORCID: /0000-0002-2535-4409/work/86487929 d3d061d5-1566-496d-a2bb-ef847cfb913a http://hdl.handle.net/10138/324041 000585055100015 cc_by_nc openAccess info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess 3121 General medicine internal medicine and other clinical medicine RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS GENDER-DIFFERENCES ADULT ASTHMA PREVALENCE POSITION RHINITIS RISK SENSITIZATION ASSOCIATION EXPOSURE Article publishedVersion 2021 ftunivhelsihelda 2023-12-14T00:04:18Z Low socioeconomic status (SES) has been associated with asthma and wheezing. Occupational group, educational level and income are commonly used indicators for SES, but no single indicator can illustrate the entire complexity of SES. The aim was to investigate how different indicators of SES associate with current asthma, allergic and nonallergic, and asthmatic wheeze. In 2016, a random sample of the population aged 20–79 years in Northern Sweden were invited to a postal questionnaire survey, with 58% participating (n=6854). The survey data were linked to the national Integrated Database for Labour Market Research by Statistics Sweden for the previous calendar year, 2015. Included SES indicators were occupation, educational level and income. Manual workers had increased risk for asthmatic wheeze, and manual workers in service for current asthma, especially allergic asthma. Primary school education associated with nonallergic asthma, whereas it tended to be inversely associated with allergic asthma. Low income was associated with asthmatic wheeze. Overall, the findings were more prominent among women, and interaction analyses between sex and income revealed that women, but not men, with low income had an increased risk both for asthmatic wheeze and current asthma, especially allergic asthma. To summarise, the different indicators of socioeconomic status illustrated various aspects of associations between low SES and asthma and wheeze, and the most prominent associations were found among women. Peer reviewed Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Sweden HELDA – University of Helsinki Open Repository ERJ Open Research 6 3 00258-2019 |
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Low socioeconomic status (SES) has been associated with asthma and wheezing. Occupational group, educational level and income are commonly used indicators for SES, but no single indicator can illustrate the entire complexity of SES. The aim was to investigate how different indicators of SES associate with current asthma, allergic and nonallergic, and asthmatic wheeze. In 2016, a random sample of the population aged 20–79 years in Northern Sweden were invited to a postal questionnaire survey, with 58% participating (n=6854). The survey data were linked to the national Integrated Database for Labour Market Research by Statistics Sweden for the previous calendar year, 2015. Included SES indicators were occupation, educational level and income. Manual workers had increased risk for asthmatic wheeze, and manual workers in service for current asthma, especially allergic asthma. Primary school education associated with nonallergic asthma, whereas it tended to be inversely associated with allergic asthma. Low income was associated with asthmatic wheeze. Overall, the findings were more prominent among women, and interaction analyses between sex and income revealed that women, but not men, with low income had an increased risk both for asthmatic wheeze and current asthma, especially allergic asthma. To summarise, the different indicators of socioeconomic status illustrated various aspects of associations between low SES and asthma and wheeze, and the most prominent associations were found among women. Peer reviewed |
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Christian, Schyllert Lindberg, Anne Hedman, Linnea Stridsman, Caroline Andersson, Martin Ilmarinen, Pinja Piirilä, Päivi Krokstad, Steinar Lundbäck, Bo Rönmark, Eva Backman, Helena |
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Low socioeconomic status relates to asthma and wheeze, especially in women |
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Low socioeconomic status relates to asthma and wheeze, especially in women |
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Low socioeconomic status relates to asthma and wheeze, especially in women |
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Low socioeconomic status relates to asthma and wheeze, especially in women |
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Low socioeconomic status relates to asthma and wheeze, especially in women |
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low socioeconomic status relates to asthma and wheeze, especially in women |
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10.1183/23120541.00258-2019 Christian , S , Lindberg , A , Hedman , L , Stridsman , C , Andersson , M , Ilmarinen , P , Piirilä , P , Krokstad , S , Lundbäck , B , Rönmark , E & Backman , H 2020 , ' Low socioeconomic status relates to asthma and wheeze, especially in women ' , ERJ Open Research , vol. 6 , no. 3 , ARTN 00258-2019 . https://doi.org/10.1183/23120541.00258-2019 ORCID: /0000-0002-2535-4409/work/86487929 d3d061d5-1566-496d-a2bb-ef847cfb913a http://hdl.handle.net/10138/324041 000585055100015 |
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