Relationship between second-hand tobacco smoke exposure and chronic rhinosinusitis: Evidence for causality

Expert Review of Respiratory Medicine

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 445-449

  Reh, Douglas D ^a   Navas Acien, Ana ^b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

causality criteria; chronic rhinosinusitis; second hand smoke; sinusitis; tobacco smoke pollution

Indexed keywords

TOBACCO SMOKE;

CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHRONIC DISEASE; CHRONIC SINUSITIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HUMAN; NOTE; PASSIVE SMOKING; RHINOSINUSITIS;

EID: 77955048800     PISSN: 17476348     EISSN: 17476356     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1586/ers.10.44     Document Type: Note

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