Smoking in health science students with asthma.
It is expected that asthmatic students in a health science department would avoid the hazards of cigarette smoking due to the knowledge they gain through their studies. Surprisingly, health science students with asthma had a higher prevalence of smoking than their healthy colleagues.
Krommydas
Georgios
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Physiology Department, Medical School, University of Thessaly, Larissa, Greece. gckromm@yahoo.gr
Kotrotsiou
Evangelia
E
Raftopoulos
Vasilios
V
Paralikas
Theodosios
T
Gourgoulianis
Konstantinos I
KI
Molyvdas
Paschalis-Adam
PA
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001249:Asthma / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002170:Canada / Q000453:epidemiology; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012907:Smoking / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*