Jump to full article: Pretoria News (sa), 2008-03-25
Intro: People who smoke at home around their toddlers could be setting them up for heart disease, new research has demonstrated.
Specialists say toddlers are more seriously affected than teenagers by smoking in their homes because toddlers are housebound "like fish in a bowl".
The research, by Dr Judy Groner, paediatrician at Nationwide Children's Hospital and Research Institute in the US, was presented at the American Heart Association's recent 48th Annual Conference on Cardiovascular Disease Epidemiology and Prevention.
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