Environmental tobacco smoke and childhood asthma

Environmental tobacco smoke, indoor allergens, and childhood asthma.

Both environmental tobacco smoke and indoor allergens can exacerbate already established childhood albeit primarily through quite disparate mechanisms. In infancy and childhood, environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure is associated with measures of decreased flow in the airways, bronchial hyperresponsiveness, and increased respiratory infections, but the relationship between ETS and allergy ...

Environmental tobacco smoke, parental atopy, and childhood asthma.

We hypothesized that the joint effect of genetic propensity to asthma and exposure to environmental tobacco smoke on the risk of childhood asthma is greater than expected on the basis of their independent effects. We performed a population-based 4-year cohort study of 2,531 children born in Oslo, Norway. We collected information on the child's health and environmental exposures at birth and whe...

Environmental tobacco smoke exposure and adult asthma.

the observed difference in total supplemental albuterol use of 0.24 puffs ( 1.90 vs. 1.66) is also surprisingly small. Finally, the statement that, to the authors’ knowledge, “no other wellcontrolled studies comparing salmeterol and montelukast have been published,” is difficult to understand, since two of the authors (A. E. and K. A. R.) are coauthors of a very similar study submitted 1.5 mont...

[Asthma and tobacco smoke].

Interaction of Intercellular Adhesion Molecule 1 (ICAM1) Polymorphisms and Environmental Tobacco Smoke on Childhood Asthma

Asthma is a chronic disease that is particularly common in children. The association between polymorphisms of the gene encoding intercellular adhesion molecule 1 (ICAM1) and gene-environment interactions with childhood asthma has not been fully investigated. A cross-sectional study was undertaken to investigate these associations among children in Taiwan. The effects of two functional single-nu...