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Relationship of Parental Smoking and Gas Cooking to Respiratory Disease in Children
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Subjects
Children, ages 6 to 12, who attended primary school in the Iowa City School District were contacted after permission was obtained from school administrators. The school district serves a university community. The children were therefore generally from middle and upper social classes. Participating schools included approximately 87 percent of the 2,062 children six to 12 years of age enrolled in the school district. Children from the participating schools were sent home with a letter explaining
RESULTS
Completed questionnaires were obtained for 1,355 children, or 65.7 percent of the children six to 12 years of age in the school district. Of the 1,355 completed questionnaires, data on parental smoking history was complete for 1,138 (84 percent) of the children. In the remaining 217 questionnaires, either maternal or paternal or both smoking histories were unrecorded or incompletely recorded. The proportion of children with incomplete or no parental smoking history who had cough with or apart
DISCUSSION
Respiratory symptoms and illnesses occur frequently, particularly in the temperate regions of the worlds in preschool and school-age children. Only recently has it been appreciated that parental smoking at home may be associated with an increased risk of occurrence of respiratory symptoms in children. A higher rate of hospitalization of the children before age two years for chest illnesses (bronchitis, pneumonia, etc) was associated with both parental smoking and gas cooking. A significant
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From the Divisions of Ambulatory and Community Pediatrics and Pediatric Allergy and Pulmonary Disease, Department of Pediatrics, and the Department of Preventive and Environmental Medicine, The University of Iowa Medical School, Iowa City.
This work was supported in part by Grant No. RR59 from the Clinical Research Center, by NIH Grant 1RO1 AI16151-01, by Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Grant C 521 A, and by the Johnson County (IA) Lung Association.
Manuscript received December 8, 1982; revision accepted June 29.