The effects of household exposure to cigarette smoke on
the incidence of respiratory illness were examined among 1007
18 month old children at Lu-wan District, Shanghai City,
People's Republic China. The passive smoking quantity was
estimated by summing the total daily cigarette consumption of
family members. No mothers who smoked were found. A
significant dose-response relationship of passive smoking to
hospitalization for respiratory illness during the children's
first 18 months of life was found, for which no confounding
factors were discovered. The relative risk was 2.4 for
children living in families including people who smoked 20 or
more cigarettes a day compared with those living in nonsmoking
families. The children who were boys or artificially
(bottle) fed were more affected than those who were girls or
breast fed. The cumulative incidence of bronchitis and
pneumonia increased significantly with increasing cigarette
smoking of family members, that did not change when sex, birth
weight, type of feeding, coal for cooking, or parental
education were taken into account. Family smoking status was
not found to be significantly associated with the cumulative
incidence of asthma, whooping cough, sinusitis or measles. / Graduation date: 1993
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:ORGSU/oai:ir.library.oregonstate.edu:1957/35873 |
| Date | 15 January 1993 |
| Creators | Jin, Cui |
| Contributors | Rossignol, Annette M. |
| Source Sets | Oregon State University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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