TY - JOUR T1 - Smoking influence in management of patients followed in an asthma unit JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J VL - 40 IS - Suppl 56 SP - 3111 AU - Ezequiel Ortega Sáenz de Tejada AU - Jose Luis Velasco Garrido AU - Nuria Maria Reina Marfil AU - María Victoria Hidalgo Sanjuán Y1 - 2012/09/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/40/Suppl_56/3111.abstract N2 - TARGET: We wanted to know the smoking influence in our asthmatic population and how tobacco can affect their asthma evolution and control. METHOD: We analyzed patients that were followed in our asthma unit in last 3 months. We totally recruited 141 patients (48 men (34%) and 93 women (66%), average age= 49.99 +/- 16.90 years old). We registered their smoking history and phase, control and crisis of asthma in the last year. RESULTS: 5 patients (3.5%) were in intermittent asthma, 18 (12.8%) mild persistent, 69 (48.9%) moderate persistent and finally 49 (34.8%) severe persistent. About control we observed 32 patients (22.7%) were well-controlled, 51(36.2%) were partially-controlled and 58 (41.1%) were not-controlled. The smoking history showed 18 patients (12.8%) were active smokers, 25 (17.7%) ex-smokers and 98 (69.5%) non-smokers. If we analyze the smokers ones, 9 (50%) were moderate-persistent asthmatics, 8 (44.4%) severe-persistent and only 1 patient (5.5%) was mild-persistent. Ex-smokers: 10 of them (40%) were severe-persistent, 9 (36%) moderate-persistent and 5 (20%) mild-persistent. About control of asthma, 11 smokers (61.1%) and 12 ex-smokers (48%) were not-controlled; 7 smokers (38.8%) and 9 ex-smokers (36%) were partially-controlled. Only 4 ex-smokers (16%) were well-controlled. Finally, 39 patients (27.7%) visited emergency units in the last year. 14 of them were smokers (35%) and 11 ex-smokers (28%). In the same way, 14 of total smokers (77%) needed emergency units care. So 11 ex-smokers (25%). CONCLUSIONS: tobacco can affect the asthma management. Smokers and ex-smokers have worse control of asthma than non-smoker people, and they use to have more severe asthma too. ER -