We have read with interest the article by Bedolla et al. [1] and
we believe the lack of association between passive smoking and
asthma might be a consequence of the way the variable was
measured. They defined passive smoking as follows:
“smoking was considered as passive when one or more
cigarettes were consumed by one or by both parents in the
presence of the children”. We would like to highlight some
factors that could have been taken into count when defining this
variable: time of smoking, frequency and number of cigarettes.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:PERUUPC/oai:repositorioacademico.upc.edu.pe:10757/322423 |
| Date | 03 July 2014 |
| Creators | Pinedo Pichilingue, Aranza, Quijano Ono, Javier |
| Publisher | Asia Pacific Association of Allergy, Asthma and Clinical Immunology (APAAACI) |
| Source Sets | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Source | Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Repositorio Académico - UPC |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23667839, http://apallergy.org/search.php?where=aview&id=10.5415/apallergy.2013.3.2.140&code=9996APA&vmode=FULL |
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