You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Miscellaneous
Passive smoking exposure is associated with an increased risk of COPD
  1. A Nataraja
  1. A Nataraja, SpR Respiratory Medicine, Northampton General Hospital, Northampton, UK; anjalinataraja{at}hotmail.com

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    More than 15% of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) are never smokers. This study attempted to correlate passive smoking exposure with the risk of developing COPD in a South Chinese population.

    Participants were drawn from the Biobank cohort of over 100 000 Guangzhou residents. The study group comprised 6497 never smokers aged …

    View Full Text