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Article: RESEARCH SHOWS TOBACCO SMOKE MAY BE MORE HARMFUL TO BLACK CHILDREN
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- March 12, 2007
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University of Cincinnati issued the following news release:
African-American children may be more susceptible to toxins found in environmental tobacco smoke, and therefore more prone to serious health complications such as cancer, according to a study by University of Cincinnati (UC) researchers.
Researchers found that African-American children with asthma had higher levels of hair and blood cotinine (COAT-e-neen), a product of nicotine metabolism, when compared with Caucasian children.
Stephen Wilson, MD, author of the study to be published in the March issue of the journal Chest, said average blood serum levels of the African-American children studied were 32 percent higher in cotinine ...