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MedWire News: Smoking is associated with increased severity of new-onset asthma in allergic adults, research shows.
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Of the 152 patients who developed asthma during follow up, 74 (48.7%) were current smokers, 17 (11.2%) were former smokers, and 61 (40.1%) had never smoked.
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Univariate analysis indicated that current and former smokers had a greater risk for severe new-onset asthma than those who had never smoked discount newport cigarettes, at an odds ratio of 2.10, but this became non-significant in multivariate analysis that adjusted for age newport cigarettes wholesale, gender, family history of atopy, and other factors.
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