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

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  • Hanns Moshammer

    (Department of Environmental Health, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Wien, Austria)

  • Hans-Peter Hutter

    (Department of Environmental Health, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Wien, Austria)

Abstract

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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  • Hanns Moshammer & Hans-Peter Hutter, 2019. "Breast-Feeding Protects Children from Adverse Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(3), pages 1-6, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:16:y:2019:i:3:p:304-:d:200207
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