Atopy, passive smoking, respiratory infections and asthma among children from kindergarten and elementary school

CONTEXT: It has been demonstrated that children exposed to parents who smoke have more respiratory infections and asthma. OBJECTIVE: To study the association of both respiratory infections and asthma attacks with atopy, passive smoking and time spent daily at school, among children aged 4 to 9 years...

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Main Authors: Sandra Aparecida Ribeiro, Tatiana Furuyama, Simone Schenkman, José Roberto de Brito Jardim
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Paulista de Medicina
Series:São Paulo Medical Journal
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-31802002000400004&lng=en&tlng=en