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Asthma and cessation of smoking
Author(s) -
HILLERDAHL G.,
RYLANDER R.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
clinical and experimental allergy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.462
H-Index - 154
eISSN - 1365-2222
pISSN - 0954-7894
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2222.1984.tb02188.x
Subject(s) - medicine , asthma , smoking cessation , tobacco smoke , smoke , pathogenesis , environmental health , immunology , pathology , physics , meteorology
Summary One hundred and twenty‐five patients with asthma were questioned on the character of their symptoms in connection with cessation of tobacco smoking. Eighteen out of fifty‐nine patients who stopped smoking, reported worsening of their symptoms. The pathogenesis behind this effect may be the effect of tobacco smoke on the immune system particularly macrophages and T cells.