Environmental and occupational respiratory diseases – 1043. Effects of socio-economic status, life style patterns and demographic factors

Results In clinical cases of asthma, poor sanitation and water supply (p<0.01), low education level (p<0.01), low income (p<0.01), positive family history and low physical activity (p<0.01) were found to be associated with asthma. We also found that low education level (p<0.001,6.75 times), low family income (p<0.001,9.11 times), low personal income (p<0.001,12.5 times), poor sanitation (p<0.01,29.9 times) and high sensitivity to allergy (p<0.001,17.07 times), positive family history (p<0.01,2.78 times) were likely to increase the risk of asthma in the population under study. Our study also suggested that house wives are 4.80 times (p<0.05) and inactive individuals are 9.54(p<0.001) times more at risk of developing asthma.