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What determines levels of passive smoking in children with asthma?
BACKGROUND Children with parents who smoke are often exposed to high levels of environmental tobacco smoke, and children with asthma are particularly susceptible to the detrimental effects of passive smoking. Data were collected from parents who smoke and from their asthmatic children. The families are currently taking part in a randomised controlled trial to test an intervention designed to re...
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In 1998 during a flight from Athens (Greece) to San Francisco (CA, USA), A.M. Hanson, an asthmatic doctor aged 52 yrs, died due to an asthmatic reaction to second-hand cigarette smoke. In 2004, the US Supreme Court ruled that Olympic Airways was to pay the widow of A.M. Hanson US$1.4 million. This successful lawsuit by a passenger against an airline over smoking was unprecedented, and smoking o...
متن کاملAddressing Passive Smoking in Children
BACKGROUND A significant number of parents are unaware or unconvinced of the health consequences of passive smoking (PS) in children. Physicians could increase parental awareness by giving personal advice. AIM To evaluate the current practices of three Dutch health professions (paediatricians, youth health care physicians, and family physicians) regarding parental counselling for passive smok...
متن کاملPassive Smoking Impairs Histone Deacetylase-2 in Children With Severe Asthma
BACKGROUND Parental smoking is known to worsen asthma symptoms in children and to make them refractory to asthma treatment, but the molecular mechanism is unclear. Oxidative stress from tobacco smoke has been reported to impair histone deacetylase-2 (HDAC2) via phosphoinositide-3-kinase (PI3K)/Akt activation and, thus, to reduce corticosteroid sensitivity. The aim of this study was to investiga...
متن کاملAsthma in Mexican school-age children is not associated with passive smoking or obesity
BACKGROUND Asthma has increased in various regions of the world. The factors associated with the growth in prevalence are still to be determined. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the degree of association of the prevalence of asthma with passive smoking and obesity in school-children in western Mexico. METHODS A population-based cross-section analytic study. A stratified random sample of 740 primary s...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.53.3.233a