Relationship between asthma and family violence

It was noted that asthma appears to most frequently in families where there is domestic violence against women.

The study was conducted in India and indicated that this condition is more prevalent in groups of poor people, which may be due to more important and frequent exposure to environmental toxins and other shortcomings such as heating in cold seasons, they said led by Dr. SV Subramanian, School of Public Health at Harvard, Boston.


The situations in which children and women spend in these families are extremely stressful and affects more than one third of Indian women.

Women who had been in a situation of violence were 37 percent higher risk of developing asthma. The group between 15 and 44 years were most affected.
The children also had high rates of risk for the disease.

This may be due to activation of the nervous system negatively. Equally relevant is the fact that in these families smoke more than the rest.