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: "Extent of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and its dose-response relation to respiratory health among adults. | Respiratory Research BioMed Central Research Open Access Extent of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke ETS and its dose-response relation to respiratory health among adults Wasim Maziak 1 5 Kenneth D Ward1 2 Samer Rastam1 Fawaz Mzayek3 and Thomas Eissenberg1 4 Address 1Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies Aleppo Syria 2Department of Health Sport Sciences and Center for Community Health University of Memphis Memphis USA 3Department of Epidemiology Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine New Orleans USA 4Department of Psychology Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond USA and 5Institute of Epidemiology Social Medicine University of Muenster Muenster Germany Email Wasim Maziak - maziak@ Kenneth D Ward - kdward@ Samer Rastam - samer@ Fawaz Mzayek - fmzayek@ Thomas Eissenberg - teissenb@ Corresponding author Published 08 February 2005 Received II November 2004 Respiratory Research 2005 6 13 doi 1465-9921-6-13 Accepted 08 February 2005 This article is available from http content 6 1 1 3 2005 Maziak 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 There is a dearth of standardized studies examining exposure to environmental tobacco smoke ETS and its relationship to respiratory health among adults in developing countries. Methods In 2004 the Syrian Center for Tobacco Studies SCTS conducted a population-based survey using stratified cluster sampling to look at issues related to environmental health of adults aged 18-65 years in Aleppo 2 500 000 inhabitants . Exposure to ETS was assessed from multiple self-reported indices combined into a composite score maximum 22 while outcomes included both self-report .
