Legg-Calvé-Perthes Disease and Passive Smoking
Autor: | E Ardanaz Aicua, M. Martínez Grande, S. Garcia Mata, A Hidalgo Ovejero |
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Rok vydání: | 2000 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Passive smoking business.industry Case-control study General Medicine Odds ratio medicine.disease_cause medicine.disease Confidence interval El Niño Internal medicine Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Epidemiology medicine Physical therapy Legg-Calve-Perthes disease Orthopedics and Sports Medicine Risk factor business |
Zdroj: | Journal of Pediatric Orthopaedics. 20:326-330 |
ISSN: | 0271-6798 |
DOI: | 10.1097/01241398-200005000-00011 |
Popis: | We carried out a case-control study with 90 patients with Legg-Calve-Perthes disease (LCPD) and 183 normal children, as controls, selected at random to determine whether the condition of passive smoking is related to the disease. Seventy-one of 90 of the LCPD group (78.9%) were passive smokers. Only 79 of 183 (43.2%) in the control group were passive smokers (p = 0.00000). We did not find any statistical relationship between passive smoking and evolution of the condition (p = 0.42883), Catterall extension (p = 0.60544), final Stulberg result (p = 0.53201), or presence of sequelae (p = 0.53256). We also could not find any statistical difference between ages (p = 0.18). The odds ratio was 5.3203 (95% confidence interval 2.92-9.69). The association between LCPD and passive smoking, after controlling for age and gender, became significant (p = 0.0000). Thus the risk of LCPD in passive smoking children is more than five times higher than in children who are not exposed to smoke. It seems that passive smoking is a factor directly or indirectly associated with LCPD. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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