ASSOCIATION BETWEEN SMOKING AND ALLERGIC RHINITIS IN OTOLARYNGOLOGIC PATIENTS OF THE HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DEL CARIBE. CARTAGENA. COLOMBIA. (IN SPANISH)

Abstract

Introduction: the allergic rhinitis (AR) is a public health problem and the smoking continues having important prevalence in spite of numerous measures applied worldwide. Objective: to estimate the association between smoking and AR. Methods: analytic study, of cases and controls, in which the cases were patients with AR and the control ones, patients with other diseases of the high respiratory way non-related with the rhinitis. It was carried out in the Hospital Universitario del Caribe, Cartagena, Colombia. Data obtained in the surveys were analyzed. The OR with its respective confidence intervals of 95% were used to calculate the association between smoking and AR. Covariates were adjusted by means of a multivariable logistic regression. A P<0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: 53 cases and 140 controls were included. There were not found statistically significant differences in the socio-demographic variables between cases and controls. The association between active smokers and AR had OR adjusted by confusion variables of 1.02 (CI 95%, 0.25-4.24). Conclusion: there was not found association between smoking and AR. Rev.cienc. biomed. 2014;5(2):205-210. KEYWORDS Rhinitis, Perennial allergic rhinitis, Smoking.

Keywords

• Rhinitis
• Perennial allergic rhinitis
• Smoking.