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Prevalence of passive smoking in the community population aged 15 years and older in China: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
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- Second-Hand Smoke and Its Synergistic Effect with a Body-Mass Index of >24.9 kg/mInternational journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Tobacco smoking confers risk for severe COVID-19 unexplainable by pulmonary imaging.Journal of internal medicine · 2021Article
- Lifetime prevalence and correlates of smoking behavior in Iranian adults' population; a cross-sectional study.BMC public health · 2019Article
- Socioeconomic and lifestyle factors associated with HPV infection in pregnant women: a matched case-control study in Beijing, China.Reproductive health · 2018Article
- Socioeconomic, environmental and lifestyle factors associated with gestational diabetes mellitus: A matched case-control study in Beijing, China.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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- Association between passive smoking and hypertension in Chinese non-smoking elderly women.Hypertension research : official journal of the Japanese Society of Hypertension · 2017Article
- High prevalence of diabetes mellitus and impaired glucose tolerance in liver cancer patients: A hospital based study of 4610 patients with benign tumors or specific cancers.F1000Research · 2016Article
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Abstract
objectivesTo estimate the prevalence and distribution of passive smoking in the community population aged 15 years and older in China.
designA systematic review and meta-analysis of cross-sectional studies reporting the prevalence of passive smoking in China and a series of subgroup, trend and sensitivity analyses were conducted in this study. DATA SOURCE: The systematic review and meta-analysis, which included 46 studies with 381,580 non-smokers, estimated the prevalence and distribution of passive smoking in China. All studies were published between 1997 and 2015.
resultsThe pooled prevalence of passive smoking was 48.7% (95% CI 44.8% to 52.5%) and was relatively stable from 1995 to 2013. The prevalence in the subgroups of gender, area, age and time varied from 35.1% (95% CI 31.8% to 38.3%) in the elderly (≥60 years) to 48.6% (95% CI 42.9% to 54.2%) in urban areas. The prevalence was lower in the elderly (≥60 years) than in those between 15 and 59 years of age (OR 1.61, 95% CI 1.44 to 1.81). The difference between females and males in urban and rural areas was not statistically significant (OR: 1.27, 95% CI 0.93 to 1.74 and OR: 1.14, 95% CI 0.82 to 1.58, respectively). In addition, a significantly increasing trend was found among males from 2002 to 2010. Heterogeneity was high in all pooled estimates (I(2)>98%, p<0.001).
conclusionsThe high and stable prevalence of passive smoking in China is raising increasing national concern regarding specific research and tobacco control programmes. Attention should be focused on young, middle-aged and male non-smokers regardless of region.
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