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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"tobacco smoke exposure"”.
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Tobacco Smoke Exposure and Pediatric Multiple Sclerosis
… is a similar association between secondhand tobacco smoke exposure and MS in children. The purpose of this study is to explore the association between tobacco smoke exposure (TSE) and MS risk in a cohort of children with demyelinating disease. Methods: Data was obtained from the Canadian …
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Indoor air pollution and environmental tobacco smoke exposure in a South African birth cohort study
… care visits and hospitalisation. Environmental exposures to indoor air pollution (IAP) or tobacco smoke are important risk factors for childhood respiratory disease. Despite increased electrification, many communities in LMIC rely on alternate fuel sources for household cooking or heating. The …
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The effect of legislation concerning environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) on the short-term health of hospitality workers: A Canada – Italy comparison
Background: Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is a combination of the smoke exhaled by smokers and the smoke burning from a cigarette, cigar or pipe that is not being inhaled. It contains over 4000 chemicals many of them being known carcinogens and toxins. The recently-identified hazards of ETS …
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Lower respiratory tract infection in sudden unexpected infant deaths
… of breast feeding, prenatal and environmental tobacco smoke exposure, prematurity, immunosuppression, underlying medical conditions and overcrowding. The present study was aimed at determining which of the known epidemiological factors were associated with SUDI death types admitted to this …
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Retrospective analysis of infection-related deaths of sudden unexpected death in infancy cases at Salt River Mortuary
… of the infant (73.3%, n=195/266), as well as tobacco smoke exposure (46.9%, n=122/260). Respiratory infection was the leading cause of death in this population, followed by gastroenteritis. Philippi area recorded the most gastroenteritis and respiratory infection-related deaths at 25.0% (n= …
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Tuberculosis treatment delay in adults and household transmission to children: a community-based study in a setting with high burden of tuberculosis and HIV
… to fifteen years with documented household exposure to an adult with TB were enrolled between December 2007 and June 2012. These children were screened for TB infection (Mantoux tuberculin skin test [TST] and two interferon-gamma release assays [IGRA]) and disease. Total treatment delay was …
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Ambulatory and hospitalized childhood pneumonia: a longitudinal study in a peri-urban low-income community with high vaccination coverage in Sub-Saharan Africa
… 1143 live-born infants. Household environmental tobacco smoke exposure was common: 82% of children were exposed in the first 6 months of life. Maternal HIV infection was common: 249 (22%) of 1143 children were HIV-exposed, but only 2 children became HIV-infected. Coverage of primary series of …
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Genetic ancestry and population health: elucidating the relative role of African genetic ancestry in cancer genomics and the broader implications for racial health disparities in cancer
… this work examines the impact of environmental exposure on cancer risk through the lens of gene-environment interactions. Complicating the investigation into disease variation is the fact that environmental and genetic factors can interact cooperatively to influence disease risk in a manner that …
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Examination of gene deletion as a mechanism of RBM5 downregulation in tobacco smoke-associated lung cancer
… expression in most lung cancers, especially in smokers, that may result from gene deletion. The objective of this study was to determine if significantly decreased levels of RBM5 expression in the lung cancers of smokers was related to RBM5 deletion. Using DNA from patient lung tissue, RBM5 gene …