According to research presented at the annual meeting of the American College of Chest Physicians, new onset asthma diagnoses may be related to military deployment.
Researchers from Brook Army Medical Center in Texas examined the charts of 50 active duty asthma patients. Twenty of the asthma patients had been deployed, but only half were diagnosed with asthma or had asthma symptoms before deployment. While this study does not prove asthma results from military deployment, it does point out that military deployments are possibly associated with exposures that may lead to occupational asthma.
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I am amazed that I found any information on this!
My husband (who had no breathing troubles before) developed asthma symptoms toward the end of his first 15 month deployment to Iraq and now has severe asthma.
The Army has consistently said that there is absolutely no correlation between his deployment (and exposure to burn pits, dust, dirty living conditions, etc) and his new onset asthma.