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- Title
Maternal smoking and childhood asthma.
- Authors
Infante-Rivard, C; Gautrin, D; Malo, J L; Suissa, S
- Abstract
The role of maternal smoking as a causal factor for the incidence of childhood asthma is still not clearly established. It was investigated among 3- and 4-year-old-child incident cases confirmed by a 6-year follow-up (n = 294) and cases who no longer had symptoms after diagnosis (n = 110). The study took place in Montréal, Canada, between 1988 and 1997. Persistent and transient cases were compared with their respective controls from the original case-control study of incidence. The odds ratio for heavy maternal smoking adjusted for known risk factors for asthma was 3.84 (95% confidence interval: 1.68, 8.76) among persistent cases and close to one among transient cases.
- Publication
American journal of epidemiology, 1999, Vol 150, Issue 5, p528
- ISSN
0002-9262
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1093/oxfordjournals.aje.a010042