Burden of respiratory disease attributable to secondhand smoke exposure at home in children in Spain (2015)

Preventive Medicine
Xavier ContinenteMaría José López

Abstract

This study aimed to estimate the number of incident cases and hospital admissions attributable to secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure at home for asthma, otitis media (OM), and lower respiratory infections (LRI) in children in Spain. The burden of respiratory disease caused by SHS exposure was estimated in terms of incident cases and hospitalized cases for asthma, OM, and LRI. Estimates were calculated using the population attributable fraction. The age-specific (0-1 year, 0-4 years, 5-11 years, and 0-11 years) prevalence of SHS exposure in children was estimated through a telephone survey performed in a representative sample of Spanish households with children in 2016. The risk estimates for all diseases were selected from international meta-analyses. The number of hospitalized cases was obtained for each disease from the Hospital Minimum Data Set provided by the Ministry of Health of Spain. Incident cases were obtained from the Global Health Data Exchange. In 2015, SHS exposure caused an estimated total of 136,403 incident cases of the following respiratory diseases: 9058 (8.5%) cases of asthma, 120,248 (8.5%) of OM, and 7097 (13.5%) of LRI in children aged 0-14 years old in Spain. Likewise, SHS exposure caused a total of 3028 ho...Continue Reading

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Oct 17, 2019·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Shohreh F FarzanJill E Johnston
Nov 6, 2020·Pediatric Research·Giulia CarrerasUNKNOWN TackSHS Project Investigators
May 1, 2021·International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health·Yolanda González-RábagoUnai Martín
Sep 11, 2021·Preventive Medicine·Guillermo Paraje, Nieves Valdés

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