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- Title
Comparação entre medidas objetivas do tabagismo e tabagismo autodeclarado em pacientes com asma ou DPOC: será que nossos pacientes dizem a verdade?
- Authors
Stelmach, Rafael; Arrabal Fernandes, Frederico Leon; Carvalho-Pinto, Regina Maria; Abensur Athanazio, Rodrigo; Zahi Rached, Samia; Prado, Gustavo Faibischew; Cukier, Alberto
- Abstract
Objective: Smoking prevalence is frequently estimated on the basis of self-reported smoking status. That can lead to an underestimation of smoking rates. The aim of this study was to evaluate the difference between self-reported smoking status and that determined through the use of objective measures of smoking at a pulmonary outpatient clinic. Methods: This was a cross-sectional study involving 144 individuals: 51 asthma patients, 53 COPD patients, 20 current smokers, and 20 never-smokers. Smoking status was determined on the basis of self-reports obtained in interviews, as well as through tests of exhaled carbon monoxide (eCO) and urinary cotinine. Results: All of the asthma patients and COPD patients declared they were not current smokers. In the COPD and asthma patients, the median urinary cotinine concentration was 167 ng/mL (range, 2-5,348 ng/mL) and 47 ng/ mL (range, 5-2,735 ng/mL), respectively (p < 0.0001), whereas the median eCO level was 8 ppm (range, 0-31 ppm) and 5 ppm (range, 2-45 ppm), respectively (p < 0.05). In 40 (38%) of the patients with asthma or COPD (n = 104), there was disagreement between the self-reported smoking status and that determined on the basis of the urinary cotinine concentration, a concentration > 200 ng/mL being considered indicative of current smoking. In 48 (46%) of those 104 patients, the self-reported non-smoking status was refuted by an eCO level > 6 ppm, which is also considered indicative of current smoking. In 30 (29%) of the patients with asthma or COPD, the urinary cotinine concentration and the eCO level both belied the patient claims of not being current smokers. Conclusions: Our findings suggest that high proportions of smoking pulmonary patients with lung disease falsely declare themselves to be nonsmokers. The accurate classification of smoking status is pivotal to the treatment of lung diseases. Objective measures of smoking could be helpful in improving clinical management and counseling.
- Subjects
CIGARETTE smokers; OBSTRUCTIVE lung diseases patients; ASTHMATICS; HEALTH; SMOKING; OBSTRUCTIVE lung diseases; COTININE; PHYSIOLOGICAL effects of carbon monoxide; PULMONARY function tests; PHYSIOLOGY; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
Brazilian Journal of Pulmonology / Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, 2015, Vol 41, Issue 2, p124
- ISSN
1806-3713
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1590/S1806-37132015000004526