Is There any Association Between Passive Smoking and Esophagitis in Pediatrics?

摘要

ObjectiveExposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) is one of the major factors of predisposing children to develop several hazardous health problems. We decided to investigate the association between nicotinine, one of the nicotine metabolites and esophagitis in children with gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).