Asthma ‘one of the most important risk factors’ for early COPD in Hispanics/Latinos in US

Asthma, history of smoking and chronic sinusitis are risk factors for early COPD in U.S. Hispanic/Latino individuals aged younger than 50 years, researchers reported in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
“Among U.S. Hispanics/Latinos, asthma is one of the most important risk factors for early COPD, followed by smoking and chronic sinusitis,” Alejandro A. Diaz, MD, MPH, from the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, told Healio.
Researchers evaluated baseline data from 16,415 individuals who were of

Asthma, history of smoking and chronic sinusitis are risk factors for early COPD in U.S. Hispanic/Latino individuals aged younger than 50 years, researchers reported in Annals of the American Thoracic Society.
“Among U.S. Hispanics/Latinos, asthma is one of the most important risk factors for early COPD, followed by smoking and chronic sinusitis,” Alejandro A. Diaz, MD, MPH, from the division of pulmonary and critical care medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, told Healio.
Researchers evaluated baseline data from 16,415 individuals who were of