A prospective study of swimming-related illness. I. Swimming-associated health risk. | Zendy

Patricia L. Seyfried | Zendy; R.S. Tobin | Zendy; Natalie E. Brown | Zendy; P F Ness | Zendy

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A prospective study of swimming-related illness. I. Swimming-associated health risk.

Author(s) -

Patricia L. Seyfried,

R.S. Tobin,

Natalie E. Brown,

P F Ness

Publication year - 1985

Publication title -

american journal of public health

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.284

H-Index - 264

eISSN - 1541-0048

pISSN - 0090-0036

DOI - 10.2105/ajph.75.9.1068

Subject(s) - medicine , epidemiology , prospective cohort study , incidence (geometry) , respiratory illness , environmental health , respiratory system , physics , optics

During the summer of 1980, both swimmers and nonswimmers were enlisted in a prospective epidemiological study to determine the relationship between swimming, water quality, and the incidence of illness. Results of 4,537 telephone follow-up interviews showed that crude morbidity rates were 69.6 per 1,000 swimmers versus 29.5 per 1,000 nonswimmers. Swimmers experienced respiratory ailments most frequently, followed by gastrointestinal, eye, ear, skin, and allergenic symptoms, respectively.

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