Publication details
Zdravotní stav mladých dospělých s rozdílným kuřáckým chováním Výsledky studie ELSPAC
| Title in English | The health status of young adults with different smoking behavior the results of ELSPAC |
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| Year of publication | 2004 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Česká a slovenská Hygiena |
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| Field | Paediatry |
| Keywords | smoking; damages of health; young adults; ELSPAC |
| Description | At the period of 18 months after delivery (one year after the last measurement), quetionnaire with the anamnestic data for parents were sent to families, the child of which was involved into the ELSPAC Study. The data about living conditions and health status were concerned on the period between 6th and 18th months after delivery. The majority of questions was identically formulated for both adult partners and thus the comparrison between men and women responses is possible. For the analysis, respondents were divided according to their smoking habits into 4 groups: nonsmokers (NK), light smokers (K1, usually smoke less than 5 cigarettes per day), middle smokers (K2, smoke 615 cigarettes daily), and heavy smokers (K3, smoke more than 15 cigrettes daily). The programmes SPPS and EPI-INFO (chi-quadrat, Mantel-Haenstel and Fischer tests) were used to evaluate the differences in the prevalence of health damages between nonsmokers and smokers, resp. between genders. The subjective sences of the fully good health were less expressed by women in general. The hospitalization was from twice to five time more common among women as comparred with men, and more often among heavy smoking women as comparred with nonsmokers and light smokers. Also respiratory diseases occured more often among smokers, the most significant differences between smokers and nonsmokers were in the data about wheezing. The gender differences were not usually significant. Only about half of all persons with respiratory damages visited their physicians. Kinetic, digestive, and urinary symptoms and diseases were more common among smoking men, especially among heavy smokers. Among women, the variability and frequency of symptoms and the differences between smokers and nonsmokers were less pronounced than among men, except those of digestive system damages and occurence of chronic defects and diseases. In markers of health status, the frequence of which was similar among smokers and nonsmokers, the occurence of eczema was more often among women, but injuries were more rare. The frequency of other health problems was similar for both genders. The ELSPAC Study confirmes the results of other foreign studies concerned on the young adults health with different smoking behavior, which described the higher frequency of different symptoms and diseases among smokers |
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