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Women Exposed to Pesticides in Farm at Greater Risk of Asthma
Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences said that though a large number of farm women are in contact with pesticides, theres very little information about the potential risks.
Farm women are an understudied occupational group. More than half the women in our study applied pesticides, but there is very little known about the risks, said Jane Hoppin, Sc.D., lead author of the study.
For the study, the researchers assessed pesticide and other occupational exposures as risk factors for adult-onset asthma in more than 25,000 farmwomen in North Carolina and Iowa.
They used self-reports of doctor-diagnosed adult asthma, and divided the women into groups of allergic (atopic) or non-allergic (non-atopic) asthma based on a history of eczema and/or hay fever.
Results showed an average increase of 50 percent in the prevalence of allergic asthma in all farm women who applied or mixed pesticides.
Surprisingly, even though the association with pesticides was higher among women who grew up on farms, these women still had a lower overall risk of having allergic asthma compared to those who did not grow up on farms, due to a protective effect that remains poorly understood.
"Growing up on a farm is such a huge protective effect it's pretty hard to overwhelm it. [But] about 40 percent of women who work on farms don't report spending their childhoods there. It is likely that the association with pesticides is masked in the general population due to a higher baseline rate of asthma, Dr. Hoppin said.
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