Parental smoking and lower respiratory illness in infancy and early childhood
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چکیده
lower respiratory illness, infancy, childhood.
منابع مشابه
Health effects of passive smoking. 1. Parental smoking and lower respiratory illness in infancy and early childhood.
BACKGROUND A systematic quantitative review was conducted of evidence relating parental smoking to acute lower respiratory illness in the first three years of life. METHODS Fifty relevant publications were identified after consideration of 692 articles selected by electronic search of the Embase and Medline databases using keywords relevant to passive smoking in children. The search, complete...
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