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ISSN : 1738-4125(Print)
ISSN : 2287-7509(Online)
Journal of Odor and Indoor Environment Vol.6 No.1 pp.56-63
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직・간접흡연 노출지표의 설문지 및 코티닌 관계 분석

양원호, 윤성욱, 권은경, 김진호1), 손부순2)*
대구가톨릭대학교 산업보건학과, 1)순천향대학교 환경산업의학연구소
2)순천향대학교 환경보건학과

Relationship between Questionnaire and Cotinine Level as Exposure Index of Direct and Indirect Smoking

Bu-Soon Son2)*, Won-Ho Yang, Sung-Uk Youn, Eun-Kyung Kwon, Jin-Ho Kim1)
2)Department of Environmental Health, Soonchunhyang University
Department of Occupational Health, Catholic University of Daegu
1)Institute of Environmental & Occupational Medicine, Soonchunhyang University

Abstract

The numbers of deaths attributed by tobacco smoking have remarkably increased, reflecting the smokingpatterns of previous decades. Exposure to environmental tobacco smoke increases the prevalence of bothupper and lower respiratory tract illnesses. Self-reports of direct and indirect smoking may not always bereliable in questionnaire method used epidemiology. A number of biochemical makers have been used tovalidate claims of indirect smoking among which the most widely used specific markers has been thenicotine metabolite cotinine. This study was conducted to evaluate the cotinine levels to determine smokingstatus. Biomoitoring to assess the validity of questionnaire method found that sensitivity and specificitycoefficients of around 100% and 100% in direct smokers. On the other hand, sensitivity and specificitycoefficients were 56.74% and 47.26%, respectively. This results suggest that indirect smoking status shouldbe assessed by biomonitoring such as cotinine levels.

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