Exhaled carbon monoxide and its associations with smoking, indoor household air pollution and chronic respiratory diseases among 512,000 Chinese adults.

BACKGROUND: Exhaled carbon monoxide (COex) level is positively associated with tobacco smoking and exposure to smoke from biomass/coal burning. Relatively little is known about its determinants in China despite the population having a high prevalence of smoking and use of biomass/coal. METHODS: The...

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Main Authors: Zhang, Q, Li, L, Smith, M, Guo, Y, Whitlock, G, Bian, Z, Kurmi, O, Collins, R, Chen, J, Lv, S, Pang, Z, Chen, C, Chen, N, Xiong, Y, Peto, R, Chen, Z, Chen, A
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2013