Finding · as stated by the study, recorded by Coridum · status verified-machine
Finding F-0923
“The COHb% values for individuals exposed to indoor tobacco smoke were 0.88 ± 0.01 ppm, while those exposed to outdoor smoke were 0.8 ± 0.001 ppm.”
Structure
- Source
- Tobacco smoke (secondhand smoke)
- Factor
- Carbon monoxide (CO)
- Outcome
- Exhaled carbon monoxide
- Study design
- cross-sectional study in Turkey: exhaled carbon monoxide and carboxyhaemoglobin measured in 100 people exposed to passive tobacco smoke indoors, 100 exposed outdoors and a control group, alongside a questionnaire on awareness of passive smoking (class 4)
- Effect
- mean 0.8
- Sample
- 100 participants
- Flags
- unit-suspect
- Caveat
- the paper prints the carboxyhaemoglobin percentage with the unit ppm, which cannot be right for a percentage; taken as printed and flagged
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