Parental Smoking and Lung Function in Healthy Children and Adolescents

Barcala, Francisco Javier González; Takkouche, Bahi; Valdés, Luís; Temes, Enrique; Leis, Rosaura; Cabañas, Rodrigo Tovar; Suárez, J. L.; Tojo, Rafael

doi:10.1016/s1579-2129(07)60028-7

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“…Another finding of the present study was that exposure to parental smoking remained high in this community (about 51% in both age groups), although a downward trend was observed with respect to the results of a previous study conducted between 1990 and 1992 with six to 18‐year‐olds in the same community, where the prevalence of parental smoking was 57% in males and 55% in female women …”

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“…17 Another finding of the present study was that exposure to parental smoking remained high in this community (about 51% in both age groups), although a downward trend was observed with respect to the results of a previous study conducted between 1990 and 1992 with six to 18-year-olds in the same community, where the prevalence of parental smoking was 57% in males and 55% in female women. 18 Regarding the relationship between exposure to parental smoking and rhinitis, we found an increased prevalence of symptoms of rhinitis ("rhinitis ever") when both parents were smokers in the group of children aged 6-7 years. In the group of adolescents aged 13-14 years, this was found only when the mother was a smoker for both "rhinitis ever" and recent rhinitis.…”

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Cross‐sectional study about impact of parental smoking on rhinitis symptoms in children

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Pértega

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Clinical Otolaryngology

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Cross‐sectional study about impact of parental smoking on rhinitis symptoms in children

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Factors affecting the development of lung function in Tunisian children

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Pariès

Harrabi

et al. 2008

American J Hum Biol

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We undertook to evaluate the impacts of morphology at birth, physical activity, anthropometric, socioeconomic and environmental factors on lung function in healthy Tunisian children. Pulmonary function parameters were measured with a Minato portable spirometer in a randomized population of 756 healthy children (388 males and 368 females) aged between 6 and 16. The morphology at birth, the gestational age, the physical activity, the socioeconomic status, the type of habitation, and the environmental factors were all assessed by a standard questionnaire. Using univariate analysis, we found that: (1) morphometric parameters (height, weight, maximal inspiratory, and expiratory perimeter), as well as sex were highly associated with pulmonary function parameters; (2) Height at birth showed strong significant relations with FVC, FEV(1), and FEV(1)/FVC; (3) lung function parameters were influenced by physical training of our children, socioeconomic status, indoor pollution, and passive smoking; and (4) we did not observe any association between the gestational age and the weight at their birth and lung function parameters. Using a general linear model analysis, morphometric parameters, age, sex, type of heating, and maximal inspiratory and expiratory perimeters had significant relation with respiratory parameters. In our population of healthy Tunisian children, the main predictive factors of the pulmonary development were the morphological factors such as height, weight, maximal inspiratory, and expiratory thoracic perimeter, sex and age, and the environmental conditions such as type of heating but not morphology at birth, physical activity, or socioeconomic status.

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