PUŠENJE RODITELJA I UČESTALE PREHLADE DJECE
PARENTAL SMOKING AND FREQUENT COLDS IN CHILDREN

Summary/Abstract: The prospective study aiming at assessing the effect of parental smoking on the susceptibility to colds and on ventilatory lung function in preadolescent children was carried out in the six-month period from November 1997 to April 1998. The study sample consisted of 337 school-children, second graders aged 8 to 9 yr, 224 from central urban and 113 from suburban areas of continental Croatia. Information on parental smoking and on socio-economic status of the family was collected from a self-administered questionnaire completed by the parents. During the six-month period the incidence of acute respiratory diseases was surveyed in children. Lung function tests were performed by spirometry. Nearly 59 percent of Croatian children live in a household with at least one smoker; 32% of mothers and 55% of their partners smoked. Both parents are smokers in 31% of families. In the investigated period the incidence of colds in all children was 24,3%.

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