TY - JOUR T1 - PASSIVE SMOKING AND THE RISK OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE AMONG MARRIED NON-SMOKING WOMEN TT - JF - MJIRI JO - MJIRI VL - 11 IS - 3 UR - http://mjiri.iums.ac.ir/article-1-1092-en.html Y1 - 1997 SP - 203 EP - 208 KW - Passive smoking KW - environmental tobacco smoke KW - coronary heart disease KW - myocardial infarction N2 - Several epidemiological studies have reported that passive smoking (PS) is a public health hazard and perhaps increases the risk of heart disease. This study evaluated the relationship between female coronary heart disease and PS among married women who described themselves as non-smokers in an area of south-east Iran. Using household exposure to tobacco smoke as an estimate of PS, a hospitalbased case-control study of CHD was conducted in Kerman, Iran. We interviewed 200 married female CHD cases, aged 42-84 years (mean [standard error, SE] 60.0 [0.5]) and 400 hospital-based controls aged 42-85 (mean [SE] 60.3 [0.4]). The controls were non-CHD patients, selected from the same hospital as the cases, and matched for marital status and age (±5 years). All of the cases and controls had never smoked. Information on PS was collected for each person. The prevalence of PS at home was 39% for cases and 32.3% for controls. The corresponding prevalence rates for PS at work were 1.5% and 0.8%. Household PS increases the risk of female CHD, but this increase was not statistic all y significant. Compared to non-smokers, exposure to husband's smoking increases the risk by about 40% (odds ratio (OR) 1.40, 95% confidence interval (CI): 0.96-2.05), although no trends were observed with the number of years of exposure. The OR increases with an increase in PS (p M3 ER -