Parental Smoking and Infant Respiratory Infection

How Important Is Not Smoking in the Same Room With the Baby

Bibliographic Data

ID11019272
AuthorsLeigh Blizzard (The authors are with the Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart. Anne-Louise Ponsonby is also with the National Centre for Epidemiology and Public Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.), Anne-Louise Ponsonby (The authors are with the Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart. Anne-Louise Ponsonby is also with the National Centre for Epidemiology and Public Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.), Anne‐Louise Ponsonby (0000-0002-6581-3657, Australian National University), Terence Dwyer (0000-0002-2091-7663, The authors are with the Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart. Anne-Louise Ponsonby is also with the National Centre for Epidemiology and Public Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.), Alison Venn (0000-0001-7090-1398, The authors are with the Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart. Anne-Louise Ponsonby is also with the National Centre for Epidemiology and Public Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.), Jennifer A Cochrane (The authors are with the Menzies Centre for Population Health Research, University of Tasmania, Hobart. Anne-Louise Ponsonby is also with the National Centre for Epidemiology and Public Health, Australian National University, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory.), Jennifer Cochrane (Australian National University)
Year2003
Volume93
Issue3
Pages482-488
Publication date2003-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
PublisherAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.93.3.482
PMID12604500
OpenAlexW2055000526
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited27

Objectives. We sought to quantify the effect of good smoking hygiene on infant risk of respiratory tract infection in the first 12 months of life. Methods. A cohort of 4486 infants in Tasmania, Australia, was followed from birth to 12 months of age for hospitalization with respiratory infection. Case ascertainment was 98.2%. Results. Relative to the infants of mothers who smoked postpartum but never in the same room with their infants, risk of hospitalization was 56% (95% confidence interval [CI] = 13%, 119%) higher if the mother smoked in the same room with the infant, 73% (95% CI = 18%, 157%) higher if the mother smoked when holding the infant, and 95% (95% CI = 28%, 298%) higher if the mother smoked while feeding the infant. Conclusions. Parents who smoke should not smoke with their infants present in the same room

Cohort · Cohort study · Confidence interval · Environmental health · Hygiene · Obstetrics · Passive smoking · Relative risk · Respiratory infection · Respiratory system · Respiratory tract infections · Breastfeeding Practices and Influences · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Pediatric health and respiratory diseases · Smoking Behavior and Cessation · Pediatrics

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