Parental smoking and post-infancy wheezing in children

A prospective cohort study

Bibliographic Data

ID11040280
AuthorsDaniel R Neuspiel (0000-0003-2996-9010, Albert Einstein College of Medicine), David Rush (Yeshiva University), N R Butler (0009-0005-9441-3934, Yeshiva University), J Golding (0000-0003-2826-3307, Yeshiva University), Polly E Bijur (0000-0001-8417-3790), M Kurzon (Yeshiva University)
Year1989
Volume79
Issue2
Pages168-171
Publication date1989-02-01
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.79.2.168
PMID2783639
OpenAlexW1966302400
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited25

The contribution of parental smoking to wheezing in children was studied in a subset of all British births between April 5 and 11, 1970 (N = 9,670). Children of smoking mothers had an 18.0 per cent cumulative incidence of post-infancy wheezing through 10 years of age, compared with 16.2 per cent among children of nonsmoking mothers (risk ratio 1.11, 95% CI: 1.02, 1.21). This difference was confined to wheezing attributed to wheezy bronchitis, of which children of smokers had 7.4 per cent, and those of nonsmokers had 5.2 per cent (risk ratio 1.44, 95% CI: 1.24, 1.68). The incidence of wheezy bronchitis increased as mothers smoked more cigarettes. After multiple logistic regression analysis was used to control for paternal smoking, social status, sex, family allergy, crowding, breast-feeding, gas cooking and heating, and bedroom dampness, the association of maternal smoking with childhood wheezy bronchitis persisted. Some of this effect was explained by maternal respiratory symptoms and maternal depression, but not by neonatal problems, the child's allergic symptoms, or paternal respiratory symptoms. There was a 14 per cent increase in childhood wheezy bronchitis when mothers smoked over four cigarettes per day, and a 49 per cent increase when mothers smoked over 14 cigarettes daily

Allergy · Asthma · Bedroom · Bronchitis · Cohort · Environmental health · Incidence (geometry) · Logistic regression · Passive smoking · Prospective cohort study · Respiratory sounds · Wheeze · Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) Research · Demography · Immunology · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Neonatal Respiratory Health Research · Pediatric health and respiratory diseases · Pediatrics

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