Passive smoking and childhood asthma. Urinary cotinine levels in children with asthma and in referents
(1991) In Allergy 46(5). p.330-334- Abstract
- Passive exposure to tobacco smoke was assessed in children with asthma (age 3-15) and in referents. There was statistically significantly (P less than 0.0005) higher excretion of the nicotine metabolite, cotinine, in the urine of 49 children with asthma (geometric mean 10 ng/ml) compared with 77 referents (4.8 ng/ml). Maternal smoking was statistically significantly more prevalent among the asthmatics than among the referents (relative risk = RR = 2.6, 95% C1 = 1.2-5.3). In conclusion, the exposure to environmental tobacco smoke in asthmatic children was higher than among healthy children, indicating that passive smoking may be a predisposing and/or aggravating factor for childhood asthma.
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- author
- Willers, Stefan LU ; Svenonius, E and Skarping, Gunnar LU
- organization
- publishing date
- 1991
- type
- Contribution to journal
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- cotinine, childhood asthma, involuntary, passive smoking, predisposing factor
- in
- Allergy
- volume
- 46
- issue
- 5
- pages
- 330 - 334
- publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- external identifiers
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- pmid:1928656
- scopus:0025728042
- ISSN
- 1398-9995
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- additional info
- The information about affiliations in this record was updated in December 2015. The record was previously connected to the following departments: Division of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (013078001), Pediatrics/Urology/Gynecology/Endocrinology (013240400)
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