Sentences with phrase «non-allergic wheeze»

Allergic wheeze was defined as reporting both wheezing and doctor - diagnosed hay fever, while non-allergic wheeze was defined as reporting wheezing but no hay fever.

Venn diagram showing which pesticides were associated with allergic wheeze, non-allergic wheeze, or both.

NC State epidemiologist Jane Hoppin and colleagues from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), the National Cancer Institute, Westat and the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) used interview data from the 2005 — 2010 Agricultural Health Study (AHS) to evaluate the association between allergic and non-allergic wheeze and 78 pesticides.

The researchers used this information in statistical models to compare the control group — farmers who had never used the pesticide in question — to those who had used it, and to compare the frequency of either allergic or non-allergic wheeze.

In the herbicide group, 18 were associated with at least one wheeze outcome, 14 with non-allergic wheeze and 10 with allergic wheeze.