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Exposure to passive smoking during adolescence is associated with an increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis
- Source :
- Oturai, D B, Bach Søndergaard, H, Koch-Henriksen, N, Andersen, C, Laursen, J H, Gustavsen, S, Kristensen, J T, Magyari, M, Sørensen, P S, Sellebjerg, F, Thørner, L W, Ullum, H & Oturai, A B 2020, ' Exposure to passive smoking during adolescence is associated with an increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis ', Multiple Sclerosis Journal . https://doi.org/10.1177/1352458520912500, Oturai, D B, Bach Søndergaard, H, Koch-Henriksen, N, Andersen, C, Laursen, J H, Gustavsen, S, Kristensen, J T, Sørensen, P S, Sellebjerg, F, Thørner, L W, Ullum, H & Oturai, A B 2021, ' Exposure to passive smoking during adolescence is associated with an increased risk of developing multiple sclerosis ', Multiple Sclerosis Journal, vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 188-197 . https://doi.org/10.1177/1352458520912500
- Publication Year :
- 2020
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2020.
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Abstract
- Background: Environmental factors are associated with acquiring multiple sclerosis (MS) particularly in adolescence. Objective: To test for association between MS and exposure to passive smoking at the age of 10–19. Methods: A total of 919 patients from the Danish MS Registry and Biobank and 3419 healthy blood donors who had not smoked before the age of 19 were targeted. We analyzed separately for each sex and for those never-smokers (cohort 1) and active smokers above the age of 19 (cohort 2). All participants completed standardized questionnaires about smoking and lifestyle. We matched cases and controls in the ratio of 1:2 by propensity scores discarding unmatchable individuals and used logistic regression adjusted for all covariates and interactions. Results: After matching, we included 110/213 male cases/controls and 232/377 female case/controls in cohort 1. In cohort 2, the numbers were 160/320 and 417/760, respectively. Among women in cohort 1, the odds ratio (OR) for MS by passive smoking at the age of 10–19 was 1.432 ( p = 0.037) but in men it was 1.232 ( p = 0.39). Among men in cohort 2, OR was 1.593 ( p = 0.022) but among women it was only 1.102 ( p = 0.44). Conclusion: Among never smokers, female MS cases were more often than female controls reported with passive smoking between the age of 10 and 19, and among smokers above the age of 19, male MS patients were more often than male controls reported with passive smoking.
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- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
GENES
Multiple Sclerosis
Passive smoking
Adolescent
DONOR
medicine.disease_cause
Multiple sclerosis
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Risk Factors
Environmental health
Epidemiology
medicine
Humans
TOBACCO SMOKING
030212 general & internal medicine
POPULATION
passive smoking
business.industry
Smoking
environmental risk factor
medicine.disease
SHIFT WORK
YOUNG AGE
Increased risk
Neurology
Case-Control Studies
Environmental Risk Factor
blood donors
Female
Tobacco Smoke Pollution
adolescence
epidemiology
Neurology (clinical)
business
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14770970 and 13524585
- Volume :
- 27
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Multiple Sclerosis Journal
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....7d88f1d6b0f1ac972a04581113695be4