Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu khoa học ngành y học tạp chí Medical Sciences dành cho các bạn sinh viên ngành y tham khảo đề tài: Low socio-economic status, smoking, mental stress and obesity predict obstructive symptoms in women, but only smoking also predicts subsequent experience of poor health. | Int. J. Med. Sci. 2007 4 7 International Journal of Medical Sciences ISSN 1449-1907 2007 4 1 7-12 Ivyspring International Publisher. All rights reserved Research Paper Low socio-economic status smoking mental stress and obesity predict obstructive symptoms in women but only smoking also predicts subsequent experience of poor health Jorgen Thorn 1 Cecilia Bjorkelund 1 Calle Bengtsson 1 Xinxin Guo 2 Lauren Lissner 1 and Valter Sundh 1 1. Department of Public Health and Community Medicine Primary Health Care The Sahlgrenska Academy at Goteborg University SE-405 30 Goteborg Sweden 2. Neuropsychiatric Epidemiology Unit Institute of Clinical Neurosciences The Sahlgrenska Academy at Goteborg University SE-405 30 Goteborg Sweden Correspondence to Jorgen Thorn . Department of Public Health and Community Medicine Primary Health Care The Sahlgrenska Academy at Goteborg University Box 454 SE-405 30 Gothenburg Sweden. Telephone 46 31 773 6828 Fax 46 31 778 1704 E-mail Received Accepted Published This study was conducted among female subjects to assess the possible association between selected risk factors and lung function as well as airWay symptoms in a 32-year perspective. The Prospective Population Study of Women was initiated in 1968-1969 in Goteborg Sweden population about 450 000 with follow-ups in 1974-1975 1980-1981 1992-1993 and 2000-2001. Women born in 1930 representative of women of the same age in the general population in 1968 were selected. Initially 372 participants were included in the cohort. In 2000-2001 231 of these women 73 now 70 years old underwent lung function tests. The main outcome measures were lung function values airway symptoms and health outcome in 2000-2001 in relation to self-reported exposures in 1968-1969 including smoking status. Smoking in 1968-1969 was associated with self-reported chronic bronchitis obstructive symptoms and poor health 32 years later as well as .
