Associations of household environmental tobacco smoke exposure with respiratory symptoms and utilisation of medical services in healthy young children in Hong Kong.

ABSTRACT: INTRODUCTION:Young children are especially vulnerable to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure. This study was carried out to determine whether household ETS exposure was associated with respiratory symptoms and medical service utilisation among Hong Kong healthy children in their first eighteen months of age. METHODS:A secondary analysis was done on the data obtained from our previous cross-sectional territory-wide pneumococcal carriage surveillance study in Hong Kong in 2013-2014. All measures were reported by caregivers. Univariable and multivariable analyses were performed to examine the associations between ETS exposure and outcome measures. Covariates included children's sex, age, body mass index z score, history of breastfeeding, gestational age at birth, birthweight, maternal

SUBMITTER: Dai S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6964497 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature