Associations between second-hand smoke exposure in pregnancy and age of childhood asthma development
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Methods In the Toronto Child Health Evaluation Questionnaire, parents of 5619 grades 1-2 students reported age of physician-diagnosed asthma development, exposure to maternal and household second-hand smoke during pregnancy and the first year of life, socio-demographic factors, and other early-life exposures such as mold and cockroach. Using Cox proportional hazard models, we evaluated the longitudinal associations between second-hand smoke exposure and age of asthma development.
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