Breast-Feeding Protects Children from Adverse Effects of Environmental Tobacco Smoke

Hanns Moshammer and Hans-Peter Hutter
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Hanns Moshammer: Department of Environmental Health, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Wien, Austria
Hans-Peter Hutter: Department of Environmental Health, Center for Public Health, Medical University of Vienna, 1090 Wien, Austria

IJERPH, 2019, vol. 16, issue 3, 1-6

Abstract: In a cross-sectional study on 433 schoolchildren (aged 6–9 years) from 9 schools in Austria, we observed associations between housing factors like passive smoking and lung function as well as improved lung function in children who had been breast-fed. The latter findings urged the question of whether the protective effects of breast-feeding act on environmental stressors or if they act independently. Therefore, the effect of passive smoking on lung function was stratified by breast-feeding. The detrimental effects of passive smoking were significant but restricted to the group of 53 children without breast-feeding. Breast-feeding counteracts the effect of environmental stressors on the growing respiratory organs.

Keywords: breast-feeding; passive smoking; lung function; early life exposures; protective factors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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