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Association Between High School Students’ Cigarette Smoking, Asthma And Related Beliefs: A Population-Based Study, Resa M. Jones, Kara P. Wiseman, Marina Kharitonova
Association Between High School Students’ Cigarette Smoking, Asthma And Related Beliefs: A Population-Based Study, Resa M. Jones, Kara P. Wiseman, Marina Kharitonova
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Background
Smoking has a detrimental effect on the symptoms and severity of asthma, a common chronic disease among adolescents. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between asthma and smoking among high school students and assess provider-patient communication with asthmatic adolescents regarding smoking and adolescents’ beliefs about the harms of smoking.
Methods
In fall 2014, data from high school students, ages 14–18 years, completing the 2009-2010 Virginia Youth Tobacco Survey (N = 1796) were used in descriptive analyses and multivariable logistic regression models adjusting for model-specific confounders as appropriate.
Results
Overall, an estimated 19 % of …