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  • Title: Asthma in health care workers: 2008 and 2010 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System Asthma Call-back Survey.
    Author: White GE, Mazurek JM, Moorman JE.
    Journal: J Occup Environ Med; 2013 Dec; 55(12):1463-8. PubMed ID: 24270301.
    Abstract:
    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.
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