Background Serum cotinine has become the most widely used biomarker of secondhand
smoke exposure (SHS) over time in all ages. The aim of this study was to review the serum …

Most children with PSA have steroid sensitive disease which improves with adherence to
maintenance inhaled corticosteroids. Add-on therapies are only needed for the minority with …

Background: Patients with either osteoporosis or depression are prone to develop other
diseases and require more medical resources than do the general population. However …

Background To identify periods of heightened susceptibility to the association of
secondhand tobacco smoke (SHS) exposure with cardiometabolic (CM) risk at age 12 years …

Background Tobacco smoke exposure increases the risk and severity of lower respiratory
tract infections in children, yet the mechanisms remain unclear. We hypothesized that …

Objective To evaluate ambulatory-care sensitive (ACS) hospitalizations for children with
noncomplex chronic diseases (NC-CD) and children with medical complexity (CMC), and …

Objective To determine if low-cost air-quality monitors providing personalised feedback of
household second-hand smoke (SHS) concentrations plus standard health service advice …

Interferon-gamma release assays performance can be impaired by host-related, technical
and environmental factors, but data in young children are limited. We performed a cross …

METHODS: We conducted a cross-sectional survey of adolescents aged 14 to 18 years old
admitted to two pediatric hospitals between August 2019 and March 2020. Using previously …

Objectives: Cotinine, 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanol (NNAL), and N-oxides
are biomarkers of tobacco smoke exposure (TSE) used to assess short-and longer-term …