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Secondhand Smoking and Obesity Among Nonsmoking Adolescents Aged 12–15 Years From 38 Low- and Middle-Income Countries
Author(s) -
Ai Koyanagi,
Lee Smith,
Hans Oh,
Lin Yang,
Sarah E. Jackson,
Josep María Haro,
Jae Il Shin,
André F. Carvalho,
Louis Jacob
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
nicotine and tobacco research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.338
H-Index - 113
eISSN - 1469-994X
pISSN - 1462-2203
DOI - 10.1093/ntr/ntaa053
Subject(s) - medicine , obesity , odds ratio , confidence interval , environmental health , confounding , body mass index , logistic regression , cross sectional study , odds , demography , pathology , sociology
Secondhand smoking (SHS) may be a risk factor for obesity in adolescence, but data on the association between SHS and obesity are scarce, especially from low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Therefore, the aim of this study was to assess the association between SHS and obesity among adolescents aged 12-15 years from 38 LMICs.

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