Smoking and asthma

• Published in: Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine Vol. 24; no. 3; pp. 313 - 322
• Main Authors: Stapleton, Megan, Howard-Thompson, Amanda, George, Christa, Hoover, Robert M, Self, Timothy H
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.05.2011
• Subjects: Adrenal Cortex Hormones - therapeutic use; Anti-Asthmatic Agents - therapeutic use; Asthma - drug therapy; Asthma - epidemiology; Asthma - etiology; Confidence Intervals; Drug Resistance; Female; Humans; Odds Ratio; Pregnancy; Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects; Prevalence; Risk Factors; Smoking - adverse effects; Surveys and Questionnaires; Tennessee - epidemiology; Tobacco Smoke Pollution - adverse effects; Treatment Failure; Tennessee

The purpose of this review is to describe the current understanding of the prevalence and adverse effects of cigarette smoking and secondhand smoke (SHS) in asthmatics in terms of patient outcomes and response to inhaled corticosteroids. We searched the English biomedical literature via PubMed, Emba...