Secondhand Smoke Statistics
Children exposed to secondhand smoke
who are hospitalized with influenza have more severe illness. compared children (exposed vs. not
exposed) hospitalized between 2002 and 2009. Using intensive care, intubation
and length of stay in the hospital as severity indicators, researchers found
children with chronic conditions and secondhand smoke exposure required more
intensive care and had a longer length of stay (10.0 vs. 3.5 hays) than
children not exposed.
In addition, children with SHS
exposure were 4.7 times more likely to be admitted to intensive care and had a
70% longer length of stay, even when factors including demographics and the
presence of or chronic conditions were eliminated as factors.
Read more here - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22863259
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