Association between Smoking Status and Incident Non-Cystic Fibrosis Bronchiectasis in Young Adults: A Nationwide Population-Based Studyopen access
- Authors
- Yang, Bumhee; Han, Kyungdo; Kim, Bongseong; Kang, Hyung Koo; Kim, Jung Soo; Kim, Eung-Gook; Choi, Hayoung; Lee, Hyun
- Issue Date
- May-2022
- Publisher
- MDPI
- Keywords
- bronchiectasis; smoking; risk factor; epidemiology
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE, v.12, no.5
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
- Volume
- 12
- Number
- 5
- URI
- http://scholarworks.bwise.kr/ssu/handle/2018.sw.ssu/43592
- DOI
- 10.3390/jpm12050691
- ISSN
- 2075-4426
- Abstract
- Smoking traditionally has not been considered as a cause of bronchiectasis. However, few studies have evaluated the association between smoking and bronchiectasis. This study aimed to investigate the association between smoking status and bronchiectasis development in young adults. This study included 6,861,282 adults aged 20-39 years from the Korean National Health Insurance Service database 2009-2012 who were followed-up until the date of development of bronchiectasis, death, or 31 December 2018. We evaluated the incidence of bronchiectasis according to smoking status. During a mean of 7.4 years of follow-up, 23,609 (0.3%) participants developed bronchiectasis. In multivariable Cox regression analysis, ex-smokers (adjusted hazard ratio (aHR) = 1.07, 95% confidence interval (CI) = 1.03-1.13) and current-smokers (aHR = 1.06, 95% CI = 1.02-1.10) were associated with incident bronchiectasis, with the highest HR in >= 10 pack-years current smokers (aHR = 1.12, 95% CI = 1.06-1.16). The association of smoking with bronchiectasis was more profound in females than in males (p for interaction < 0.001), in younger than in older participants (p for interaction = 0.036), and in the overweight and obese than in the normal weight or underweight (p for interaction = 0.023). In conclusion, our study shows that smoking is associated with incident bronchiectasis in young adults. The association of smoking with bronchiectasis development was stronger in females, 20-29 year-olds, and the overweight and obese than in males, 30-40-year-olds, and the normal weight or underweight, respectively.
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