Burden of disease attributable to second-hand smoke exposure: a systematic review
Author
Carreras, Giulia
Lugo, Alessandra
Gallus, Silvano
Cortini, Barbara
Fernández, Esteve
López, Maria José
Soriano, Joan B.
López Nicolás, Ángel
Semple, Sean
Gorini, Giuseppe
TackSHS Project Investigators
Publication date
2019-12ISSN
0091-7435
Abstract
Our aim was to provide a systematic review of studies on the burden of disease due to second-hand smoke (SHS) exposure, reviewing methods, exposure assessment, diseases causally linked to SHS, health outcomes, and estimates available to date. A literature review of studies on the burden of disease from SHS exposure, available in PubMed and SCOPUS, published 2007–2018 in English language, was carried out following the PRISMA recommendations. Overall, 588 studies were first identified, and 94 were eligible. Seventy-two studies were included in the systematic review. Most of them were based on the comparative risk assessment approach, assessing SHS exposure using mainly surveys on exposure at home/workplaces. Diseases more frequently studied were: lung cancer, ischemic heart disease, stroke, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma and breast cancer in adults; lower respiratory tract infection, otitis media, asthma, sudden infant death syndrome and low birth weight in children. The SHS exposure assessment and the reported population attributable fractions (PAF) were largely heterogeneous. As an example, the PAF from lung cancer varied between 0.6% and 20.5%. Moreover, PAF were estimated applying relative risks and SHS exposures with no consistent definitions or with different age classes. The research gap on the SHS exposure burden is shrinking. However, estimates are not yet available for a number of countries, particularly the Middle Eastern and African countries, and not all diseases with the strongest evidence of causation, such as sudden infant death syndrome, have been explored. Moreover, in some cases the applied methodology revealed relatively low quality of data.
Document Type
Article
Document version
Accepted version
Language
English
Subject (CDU)
61 - Medical sciences
Keywords
Tabac
Tabaquisme
Malalties
Pulmons -- Càncer
Tabaco
Tabaquismo
Enfermedades
Pulmones -- Cáncer
Tobacco
Smoking
Diseases
Lungs -- Cancer
Pages
49
Publisher
Elsevier
Collection
129;
Is part of
Preventive Medicine
Citation
Carreras, Giulia; Lugo, Alessandra; Gallus, Silvano [et al.]. Burden of disease attributable to second-hand smoke exposure: a systematic review. Preventive Medicine, 2019, 129, p. 1-49. Disponible en: <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0091743519303093>. Fecha de acceso: 4 jul. 2020. DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2019.1058338
Grant agreement number
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/681040
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- Ciències de la Salut [745]
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