dc.contributor.author | Bramness, Jørgen Gustav | |
dc.contributor.author | von Soest, Tilmann | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Norway | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-12-20T13:50:12Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-12-20T13:50:12Z | |
dc.date.created | 2019-06-11T10:30:16Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Bramness, J. G. and T. von Soest (2019). "A longitudinal study of cannabis use increasing the use of asthma medication in young Norwegian adults." BMC Pulm Med 19(1): 52. doi: 10.1186/s12890-019-0814-x | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1471-2466 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11250/2634330 | |
dc.description.abstract | BACKGROUND:
A small number of studies have shown that the use of cannabis increases the risk of bronchial asthma. There is, however, a paucity of longitudinal studies which are able to control for known risk factors of bronchial asthma.
METHODS:
Survey data from a population-based longitudinal study encompassing 2602 young adults followed for 13 years were coupled with individual prescription data on asthma medication (β2-adrenergic receptor agonists and glucocorticoids for inhalation) from the Norwegian national prescription database, which covers the entire Norwegian population. Current cannabis use, gender, age, years of education, body mass index (BMI; kg/m2) and current smoking were measured.
RESULTS:
Prescription of asthma medication was associated with female gender, self-reported earlier asthma and allergies, daily tobacco smoking and current cannabis use. In a model adjusting for gender, age, years of education, BMI, earlier self-reported asthma and allergies and current tobacco smoking the odds ratio for a current cannabis user to fill prescriptions for asthma medication was 1.71 (95% CI: 1.06-2.77; p = 0.028).
CONCLUSIONS:
This suggests that cannabis is a risk factor for bronchial asthma or use of asthma medication even when known risk factors are taken into consideration. Intake of cannabis through smoking should be avoided in persons at risk. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | The data collection was funded by several grants from the Research Council of Norway. The funders had no role in the design of the study and collection, analysis, interpretation of the data, or decision to submit results. | en |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.rights | Navngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal | * |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.no | * |
dc.subject | Adolescent; Asthma medication; Cannabis; Longitudinal; Smoking | en |
dc.title | A longitudinal study of cannabis use increasing the use of asthma medication in young Norwegian adults | en |
dc.type | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.type | Journal article | en |
dc.description.version | publishedVersion | |
dc.rights.holder | © The Author(s). 2019 Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. | en |
dc.source.pagenumber | 1-7 | nb_NO |
dc.source.volume | 19: 52 | nb_NO |
dc.source.journal | BMC Pulmonary Medicine | en |
dc.source.issue | 1 | nb_NO |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1186/s12890-019-0814-x | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 1703878 | |
cristin.unitcode | 1991,0,0,0 | |
cristin.unitname | Sykehuset Innlandet HF | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 1 | |