Acute lower respiratory tract infections in infants: the influence of central heating systems.
A cohort of 342 infants in a group practice population were studied during the first year of life to assess whether hot-air central heating was associated with more severe respiratory infections than radiator central heating.Infants born into council house families with ducted hot-air central heating were at no greater risk of contracting severe respiratory infections than those with radiator central heating. The risk of a respiratory infection was positively correlated with size of sibship and maternal smoking habits.
D006361:Heating / Q000379:methods*; D006798:Housing; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012141:Respiratory Tract Infections / Q000453:epidemiology*; D012907:Smoking; D014852:Wales