title: [AIRBAg study: preliminary results after one year of screening for COPD in dairy farmers].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  The AIRBAg study screens for bronchial obstruction in dairy farmers. We present the preliminary results after one year.
  
  
  METHODS
  A prospective screening study based on questionnaires and electronic mini-spirometry (Néo-6(®)) that includes a representative sample of dairy farmers from the departments of Morbihan and Île-et-Vilaine in Brittany. The dairy farmers had an occupational medicine appointment and, if they demonstrated at least one marker of possible bronchial obstruction (chronic cough, chronic bronchitis, dyspnoea, wheezing, FEV1/FEV6<0.8), they were referred to a pulmonologist. The data we present here were extracted from the occupational medicine appointments because the pulmonologists' appointments are still running.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Among the 277 dairy farmers included, 125 (45%) demonstrated "possible bronchial obstruction". The total score of the CAT questionnaire was higher in these farmers (9.1±6.2 versus 5.8±4.0; P<0.0001). In multivariate analysis markers of "possible bronchial obstruction" were eczema, manual foddering and duration of mechanical straw litter spreading.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Occupational medicine appointments identified markers of "possible bronchial obstruction". We will have the complete results from AIRBAg study in 2015.
authors.affiliation: Service de pneumologie, hôpital Pontchaillou, 2, rue Henri-Le-Guilloux, 35033 Rennes cedex, France; IRSET UMR 1085, université de Rennes 1, 35043 Rennes, France. Electronic address: stephane.jouneau@chu-rennes.fr.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jouneau
authors.affiliation: Université de Rennes 1, 35043 Rennes, France.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Pinault
authors.affiliation: Université de Rennes 1, 35043 Rennes, France; Service de pathologie professionnelle, hôpital Pontchaillou, 35033 Rennes, France.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Gouyet
authors.affiliation: Service de pneumologie, hôpital Pontchaillou, 2, rue Henri-Le-Guilloux, 35033 Rennes cedex, France.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Brinchault
authors.affiliation: Service d'explorations fonctionnelles respiratoires, hôpital Pontchaillou, 35033 Rennes, France.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Guillot
authors.affiliation: IRSET UMR 1085, université de Rennes 1, 35043 Rennes, France; Service d'épidémiologie et santé publique, hôpital Pontchaillou, 35033 Rennes, France.
authors.forename: J-F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Viel
authors.affiliation: Mutualité sociale agricole des portes de Bretagne, 35170 Bruz, France.
authors.forename: J-C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Presle
authors.affiliation: Service de pneumologie, hôpital Pontchaillou, 2, rue Henri-Le-Guilloux, 35033 Rennes cedex, France; Université de Rennes 1, 35043 Rennes, France.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Desrues
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000382:Agricultural Workers' Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D000821:Animal Feed / Q000009:adverse effects; D000818:Animals; D029481:Bronchitis, Chronic / Q000453:epidemiology; D003371:Cough / Q000453:epidemiology; D003612:Dairying; D004417:Dyspnea / Q000453:epidemiology; D005541:Forced Expiratory Volume; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006799:Housing, Animal; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening; D008875:Middle Aged; D016273:Occupational Exposure; D018547:Plant Stems / Q000009:adverse effects; D011446:Prospective Studies; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology; D012130:Respiratory Hypersensitivity / Q000453:epidemiology; D012135:Respiratory Sounds; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires
keywords: Agriculteur; Bronchopneumopathie chronique obstructive; Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; Dépistage; Electronic mini-spirometer; Farmer; Mini-spiromètre électronique; Obstruction bronchique; Obstructive lung disease; Screening