Association of maternal smoking with child cotinine levels.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Our aim was to understand the strength of association between parental smoking and child environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure in order to inform the development of future tobacco control policies. ETS was measured using child cotinine levels below the active smoking threshold.

Methods

Participants were drawn from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children and included 3,128 participants at age 7 years and 1,868 participants at age 15 years. The primary outcome was cotinine levels of nonsmoking children, to investigate the relationship between maternal smoking and child cotinine levels. The secondary outcome was cotinine levels of all individuals to investigate the relationship between child smoking and child cotinine levels. Maternal and child smo

SUBMITTER: Stiby AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3819976 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature