Passive smoking assessed by salivary cotinine and self-report in relation to cause-specific mortality: 17-year follow-up of study participants in the UK Health and Lifestyle Survey

Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health

Volumn 68, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1200-1203

  Batty, G David ^a,b   Gale, Catharine R ^b,c   Jefferis, Barbara ^a   Kvaavik, Elisabeth ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE FOR ALCOHOL AND DRUG RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOMARKER; CANCER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; HEALTH SURVEY; LIFESTYLE; MORTALITY; PARTICIPATORY APPROACH; SALIVA; SMOKING;

UNITED KINGDOM;

COTININE; PASSIVE SMOKING;

ADULT; CHEMISTRY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PASSIVE SMOKING; SALIVA; SELF REPORT; TRENDS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ADULT; COTININE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; SALIVA; SELF REPORT; TOBACCO SMOKE POLLUTION;

EID: 84911399849     PISSN: 0143005X     EISSN: 14702738     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/jech-2014-203870     Document Type: Article

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