A new study in Japan has signalled the need for tobacco control in husbands as the most important measure to prevent airway obstruction of nonsmoking women at home.
A higher proportion of non-smoking women who were exposed to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) or second-hand smoke (SHS) from their husband had airway obstruction as compared to non-smoking women who experienced second-hand smoking from housemates other than their husbands, finds the study from Japan.
The study published in the International Journal of COPD surveyed 811 nonsmoking women aged 40 years or older. The participants answered structured questionnaires, including ETS exposure from their husbands and other housemates (parents, siblings and dependants), and performed spirometry.
The women with any history of ETS exposure from housemates into three groups (A = husband, B = others and C = both of husband and others) and defined the control group as those with no ETS exposure from housemates.
Researchers Kazuaki Suyama, Ryo Kozu, Takako Tanaka, Yuji Ishimatsu, Terumitsu Sawai of the Department of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Science, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Nagasaki, Japan collaborated for the study.
Source: Dovepress
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