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==Overview== | ==Overview== | ||
==Risk Factors== | == Risk Factors == | ||
* The disease can be triggered by various respiratory exposures, especially a recent initiation of tobacco smoking. | |||
* Idiopathic acute eosinophilic pneumonia occurs acutely in previously healthy young adults, with a mean age of approximately 30 years, and with male predominance.48–53 | |||
* Two-thirds of patients are smokers, but there is usually no history of asthma. | |||
* One third to one half of the ICEP patients have a history of asthma [7-12]; | |||
==References== | ==References== | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]
Overview
Risk Factors
- The disease can be triggered by various respiratory exposures, especially a recent initiation of tobacco smoking.
- Idiopathic acute eosinophilic pneumonia occurs acutely in previously healthy young adults, with a mean age of approximately 30 years, and with male predominance.48–53
- Two-thirds of patients are smokers, but there is usually no history of asthma.
- One third to one half of the ICEP patients have a history of asthma [7-12];