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M Manciaux

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The single-breath nitrogen test does not detect functional impairment in children with passive exposure to tobacco smoke.

Respiratory symptoms and pulmonary function were compared in 46 nonsmoking children aged 10 to 16 years, whose parents were smokers, and an identical number of children (matched for sex, age and height) whose parents were nonsmokers. Passive exposure to parental tobacco smoke resulted in a higher prevalence of respiratory symptoms, more frequent upper airway infections and a significant decrease in forced expiratory flows; these effects were more marked in boys. The single-breath nitrogen washout test, a sensitive test of small airways obstruction in adults, did not detect any effect of involuntary smoking in this limited sample of children.

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[Longitudinal study of puberty in Dakar].

A longitudinal survey of some characteristics of puberty was performed on a group of Dakarese adolescents, who had previously been followed up from birth to 6 years of age. The collected data were used to determine (1) the dispersion of ages when these characteristics began to appear, and the relationships between various aspects of puberty; (2) the relationships between some pubertal criteria and the end of the growth process and (3) those existing between nutritional status in early childhood and puberty itself. Some comparisons have been made with the results of a longitudinal survey concerning Londonian adolescents.

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