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PASSIVE SMOKING AND OCCURRENCE OF ASTHMA IN CHILDREN | ||
| IRAQI JOURNAL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES | ||
| Article 1, Volume 6, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 14-19 | ||
| Author | ||
| Abdul-Karem Jasem Albahadle | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Background: Asthma, which is one of the most important chronic disease in pediatric age group, with increase incidence and mortality rate, there are two important factors for occurrence of It, genetic predisposition and triggering factors like cigarette smoking Objective: to investigate the relation ship between cigarette smoking in the family and the occurrence of asthma in the children (as passive smoker). Methods: across sectional study was done on 285 patients whose age beginning from few months to above 5yr. they were libeled as having asthma according to repeated attack of obstructive airway manifestation and positive family history of asthma associated with good response to bronchodilator. They were studied for the period between 7th of January to 20th of February 2008 who were attending the pediatric department in AL.kadhimiya teaching hospital, same number of children 285 were taken control group who are free from any respiratory problem. Results: males were slightly more than female in affected children the percentage was 58.25% and 41.75% respectively...Group A-75% of affected children had positive family history of smoking while in control group 21.43% had positive family history of smoking .in Group B family history of smoking were found in 73.79% of affected and 21.49% of control children . Group C show that67.31% of affected children had positive family history of smoking and 28.57% of control children do so. in Group D 65.96% of affected children and 35.56%of control had positive family history of smoking .in Group E and Group F positive family history of asthma in affected children were 69.45% and 70.97% respectively. In all age group there is significant relation between smoking and occurrence of asthma since p value was < 0.05 Conclusion: The study expresses the strong relation ship between occurrence of asthma and smoking as one of the important triggering factor for appearance of asthma | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Asthma; Children; passive smoking | ||
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