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Breast-Feeding Protects Children from Adverse Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke

In a cross-sectional study on 433 schoolchildren (aged 6–9 years) from 9 schools in Austria, we observed associations between housing factors like passive smoking and lung function as well as improved lung function in children who had been breast-fed. The latter findings urged the question of whethe...

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Autores principales: Moshammer, Hanns, Hutter, Hans-Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6388144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30678089
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030304
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description In a cross-sectional study on 433 schoolchildren (aged 6–9 years) from 9 schools in Austria, we observed associations between housing factors like passive smoking and lung function as well as improved lung function in children who had been breast-fed. The latter findings urged the question of whether the protective effects of breast-feeding act on environmental stressors or if they act independently. Therefore, the effect of passive smoking on lung function was stratified by breast-feeding. The detrimental effects of passive smoking were significant but restricted to the group of 53 children without breast-feeding. Breast-feeding counteracts the effect of environmental stressors on the growing respiratory organs.
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spelling pubmed-63881442019-02-27 Breast-Feeding Protects Children from Adverse Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke Moshammer, Hanns Hutter, Hans-Peter Int J Environ Res Public Health Article In a cross-sectional study on 433 schoolchildren (aged 6–9 years) from 9 schools in Austria, we observed associations between housing factors like passive smoking and lung function as well as improved lung function in children who had been breast-fed. The latter findings urged the question of whether the protective effects of breast-feeding act on environmental stressors or if they act independently. Therefore, the effect of passive smoking on lung function was stratified by breast-feeding. The detrimental effects of passive smoking were significant but restricted to the group of 53 children without breast-feeding. Breast-feeding counteracts the effect of environmental stressors on the growing respiratory organs. MDPI 2019-01-23 2019-02 /pmc/articles/PMC6388144/ /pubmed/30678089 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030304 Text en © 2019 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6388144/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30678089
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph16030304
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