Passive smoking in children: Racial differences in systemic exposure to cotinine by hair and urine analysis

Chest

Volumn 109, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 446-450

  Knight, Jennifer M ^c   Eliopoulos, Chrisoula ^c   Klein, Julia ^c   Greenwald, Mark ^c   Koren, Gideon ^a,b  

^a ONTARIO MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND LONG TERM CARE   (Canada)

^b HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^c NONE

Author keywords

cotinine; hair analysis; racial differences; smoking; urinalysis

Indexed keywords

COTININE; CREATININE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PASSIVE SMOKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; URINALYSIS;

EID: 0030067551     PISSN: 00123692     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1378/chest.109.2.446     Document Type: Article

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