Publications by authors named "N Le Moual"
Background: Evidence is mounting that domestic use of disinfectants and cleaning products (DCP), particularly in spray form, is associated with wheezing in children. Beyond the home environment, many children are also exposed to DCP in daycare. The links between daycare exposures to DCP and child respiratory health have never before been studied.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Few studies evaluated the use of Household Disinfectant and Cleaning Products (HDCPs) during the COVID-19 pandemic, but no population-based cohorts used longitudinal data. We studied changes in HDCPs during the first lockdown, based on longitudinal data from the French population-based NutriNet-Santé and CONSTANCES cohorts.
Methods: Based on standardized questionnaires on household cleaning tasks in 2018-2019 and around the first lockdown in France (March17-May3 2020), we compared the duration of weekly use of HDCPs (< 1 day/week, < 10 min/week; 10-30 min/week; > 30 min/week) and the household cleaning help (yes/no) before and during the lockdown period by Bhapkar and McNemar's tests.
Introduction: Work-related asthma accounts for ≥25% of asthma in working-age populations, though the relationship between work exposures and symptoms is frequently missed, leading to poor health and employment outcomes. We hypothesised that inhalable exposures at work are associated with poor asthma control in severe asthma (SA).
Methods: We searched the Birmingham (UK) Regional NHS SA Service clinical database (n=1453 records; 1 March 2004 to 1 March 2021) and undertook a cross-sectional study using baseline data collected at diagnosis.
Article Synopsis
- Researchers faced challenges linking job data from different classifications to the Occupational Asthma-specific Job-Exposure Matrix (OAsJEM), which uses the ISCO88 classification, necessitating the development of a crosswalk for the CONSTANCES cohort coded with PCS2003.
- The crosswalk was created through a collaborative effort involving skilled and novice coders who developed strategies to convert jobs from PCS2003 to ISCO88, refining their results through consensus meetings.
- The finalized crosswalk established 998 job matches, revealing significant variability in the initial proposals from different coders and showcasing the complexity in transcoding occupational classifications.