Passive smoking and childhood asthma / 国际儿科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Passive smoking causes significant adverse effects on the origins and progress of childhood asthma. Passive smoking may lead to an increased risk for the development of new cases of asthma in child. For the children who have already established asthma, passive smoking has great impact on asthma control, including increasing asthma symptoms, inducing exacerbations, decreasing quality of life and responsiveness to therapy drugs. The related mechanisms by which passive smoking makes induction of asthma and worsening of established asthma are still in exploration. The presented mechanisms have been postulated are impaired immune responses,impaired lung development, bronchial hyperreactivity, and genetic predisposition.