Passive smoking: Secondhand smoke does cause respiratory disease
| Autor: | Tai Hing Lam, Sarah M. McGhee, Anthony J. Hedley, Ma Pow, Gabriel M. Leung |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2003 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Passive smoking business.industry Respiratory disease General Engineering Pulmonary Disease Chronic Obstructive - etiology Pulmonary disease General Medicine medicine.disease_cause medicine.disease Confidence interval Tobacco Smoke Pollution - adverse effects Risk Factors Relative risk Emergency medicine medicine General Earth and Planetary Sciences Female Letters Respiratory system Secondhand smoke business General Environmental Science |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| Popis: | Editor–The report by Enstrom and Kabat confirms that exposure to secondhand smoke causes injury to the respiratory system with the finding of a combined increased mortality risk for men and women for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (relative risk 1.65, 95% confidence interval 1.0 to 2.73).1 This is consistent with other investigations that show the sensitivity of the respiratory system to secondhand smoke at all ages and in different settings. In … |
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