Twenty Year Study
WebMD writes:
A new European study has found that women who work as cleaners, or who regularly clean the family home using cleaning sprays or other products, have a greater decline in lung health over time than women who do not clean.
The researchers, from the University of Bergen in Norway, say the faster decline in lung health is comparable to smoking 20 cigarettes a day over 10 to 20 years.
Fortune writes:
Based on the results, the authors suggested that exposure to cleaning materials can be detrimental to women’s health in the long term. In fact, the effects of 10-20 years of cleaning can be as damaging as smoking a pack of cigarettes a day for the same amount of time.
Newsweek writes:
A recent study found that nurses who used disinfectants to clean surfaces at least once a week had a 24-percent to 32-percent increased risk of developing COPD over the course of eight years compared to nurses who used these products less frequently. This link remained even after researchers made adjustments for other COPD risk factors such as age, smoking status, body mass index, and ethnicity.
Want to read the long-term effects of cleaning products on the lungs from the ECRHS Study? Well, here you go.
