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| Farm women at greater risk of asthma |
| 12.28.07 (6:54 am) [edit] |
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Farm women, who are exposed to some commonly used pesticides in farm work are at a greater risk of developing allergic asthma, according to a new study. Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences said that though a large number of farm women are in contact with pesticides, there's very little information about the potential risks. "Farm women are an understudied occupational group. More than half the women in our study applied pesticides, but there is very little known about the risks," said Jane Hoppin, Sc D, lead author of the study. For the study, the researchers assessed pesticide and other occupational exposures as risk factors for adult-onset asthma in more than 25,000 farmwomen in North Carolina and Iowa. They used self-reports of doctor-diagnosed adult asthma, and divided the women into groups of allergic (atopic) or non-allergic (non-atopic) asthma based on a history of eczema and/or hay fever. Results showed an average increase of 50 per cent in the prevalence of allergic asthma in all farm women who applied or mixed pesticides. Surprisingly, even though the association with pesticides was higher among women who grew up on farms, these women still had a lower overall risk of having allergic asthma compared to those who did not grow up on farms, due to a protective effect that remains poorly understood. "Growing up on a farm is such a huge protective effect it's pretty hard to overwhelm it. [But] about 40 per cent of women who work on farms don't report spending their childhoods there. It is likely that the association with pesticides is masked in the general population due to a higher baseline rate of asthma," Dr Hoppin said. She also found that most pesticides were associated only with allergic asthma, even though non-allergic asthma is generally more common in adults. "Asthma is a very heterogeneous disease. This finding suggests that some of the agricultural risk factors for allergic and non-allergic asthma may differ," she said. The study also showed that some legal but rarely used compounds, such as parathion, were associated with almost a three-fold increase in allergic asthma. But even some commonly used pesticides were associated with a marked increase in allergic asthma prevalence. Of all the compounds examined, only permethrin, a commonly used insecticide that is used in consumer items such as insect-resistant clothing to anti-malaria bed-nets, was associated with both allergic and non-allergic asthma. Researchers say that this is the first study to examine pesticides and asthma in farm women, and it points the way for future research to clarify the relationship. "At the end of the day, you have to remember that we're looking at cross-sectional data, thus we cannot establish a temporal association between pesticide use and asthma," said Dr Hoppin. "There is a difference in asthma prevalence between women who did and did not use pesticides but whether it is causal or not remains to be seen," she added. The study was published in the first issue for January of the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, published by the American Thoracic Society. |
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| 12.25.07 (8:47 am) [edit] |
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| Massage eases post surgery anxiety |
| 12.19.07 (1:28 am) [edit] |
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In a new study, it was found that a small thing like a 20-minute evening back massage could help to relieve pain and reduce the apprehension one feels after a major surgery.
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| Massage eases post surgery anxiety |
| 12.19.07 (1:26 am) [edit] |
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In a new study, it was found that a small thing like a 20-minute evening back massage could help to relieve pain and reduce the apprehension one feels after a major surgery.
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| 12.19.07 (1:18 am) [edit] |
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