Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học 'Respiratory Research cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài:" Prenatal and postnatal tobacco smoke exposure and respiratory health in Russian children. | Respiratory Research BioMed Central Research Open Access Prenatal and postnatal tobacco smoke exposure and respiratory health in Russian children Jouni JK Jaakkola 1 Anna A Kosheleva2 Boris A Katsnelson3 Sergey V Kuzmin3 Larissa I Privalova3 and John D Spengler2 Address 1Institute of Occupational and Environmental Medicine University of Birmingham Birmingham UK 2Department of Environmental Health Harvard School of Public Health Boston MA USA and 3The Urals Regional Center for Environmental Epidemiology URCEE Ekaterinburg Russia Email Jouni JK Jaakkola - Anna A Kosheleva - akoshele@ Boris A Katsnelson - bkaznelson@ Sergey V Kuzmin - SergeyK@ Larissa I Privalova - privalova@ John D Spengler - spengler@ Corresponding author Published 28 March 2006 Received 17 November 2005 Respiratory Research 2006 7 48 doi 1465-9921 -7-48 Accepted 28 March 2006 This article is available from http content 7 1 48 2006 Jaakkola et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Only few studies have assessed the relative impact of prenatal and postnatal exposure to tobacco smoke on the child s later asthma or chronic respiratory symptoms and to our knowledge no studies have elaborated respiratory infections and allergies in this context. Objective To assess the effects of prenatal and postnatal exposure to tobacco smoke on respiratory health of Russian school children. Methods We studied a population of 5951 children 8 to12 years old from 9 Russian cities whose parents answered a questionnaire on their children s respiratory health home environment and housing characteristics. The main health outcomes were asthma .
