Smoke-free legislation and the incidence of paediatric respiratory infections and wheezing/asthma: interrupted time series analyses in the four UK nations

We investigated the association between introduction of smoke-free legislation in the UK (March 2006 for Scotland, April 2007 for Wales and Northern Ireland, and July 2007 for England) and the incidence of respiratory diseases among children. We extracted monthly counts of new diagnoses of wheezing/...

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Main Authors: Been, Jasper V., Szatkowski, Lisa, Staa, Tjeerd-Pieter van, Leufkens, Hubert G., Schayck, Onno C. van, Sheikh, Aziz, Vries, Frank de, Souverein, Patrick
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2015
Online Access:http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/31351/
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