Association Between Occupational Exposure to Disinfectants and Asthma in Young Adults Working in Cleaning or Health Services: Results From a Cross-Sectional Analysis in Germany.

J Occup Environ Med

Institute and Clinic for Occupational, Social and Environmental Medicine (Dr Weinmann, Mr Forster, Dr Windstetter, Dr Nowak, Dr Radon, Dr Gerlich); Dr. v. Haunersches Kinderspital (Dr von Mutius), University Hospital, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet; Comprehensive Pneumology Centre (CPC), German Centre for Lung Research (DZL) (Dr Weinmann, Mr Forster, Dr von Mutius, Dr Windstetter, Dr Nowak, Dr Radon, Dr Gerlich), Munich; Paediatric Department, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus Dresden, TU Dresden, Dresden (Dr Vogelberg); Institute of Epidemiology and Medical Biometry, Ulm University, Ulm (Dr Genuneit); and Pediatric Epidemiology, Department of Pediatrics, University Medicine Leipzig, Leipzig (Dr Genuneit), Germany.

Published: September 2019

Objective: To analyze the association of occupational disinfectants use with asthma and wheezing in young professionals.

Methods: Three hundred sixty-five participants from the German Study on Occupational Allergy Risks II aged 20 to 24 years and working in cleaning or health services answered a questionnaire on respiratory health, occupational exposure to disinfectants, and potential confounders. By logistic regression, we calculated the association between duration of occupational disinfectants exposure and doctor-diagnosed asthma, current asthma, and current wheezing.

Results: Individuals exposed to disinfectants for more than 12 months had almost three times the odds of doctor-diagnosed asthma compared with those not exposed (odds ratio [OR]: 2.99, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 1.36-6.55).

Conclusions: Our findings provide some further evidence for an association between occupational exposure to disinfectants and asthma, indicating that this association can be seen already after the first year of exposure.

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