Publications by authors named "Gabriella Matteelli"

Aim: To study the relationship between respiratory/allergic disorders and chronic environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure to husband or at workplace among non-smoking women of a general population in Italy.

Methods: Analyses regard 2195 married or employed women. Information was collected through a self-administered questionnaire.

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Background: The aim of this study was to compare cotinine determinations in three biological fluids for assessing environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) exposure in female non-smokers (n=1605) in Italy.

Methods: Information about ETS exposure at home, in the workplace, and in other places within the previous week was collected via questionnaire. Plasma, salivary and urinary cotinine levels were measured.

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Study Objectives: The Venn diagram of obstructive lung disease (OLD) has been recently quantified. We aimed to quantify the proportion of the general population with OLD, and the intersections of physician-diagnosed asthma, chronic bronchitis (CB), and emphysema in two Italian general population samples, in relationship to airflow obstruction (AO) determined through spirometry.

Design And Participants: We analyzed data from two prospective studies (4,353 patients) carried out in the rural area of Po River delta from 1988 to 1991 and in the urban area of Pisa from 1991 to 1993.

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Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is an important cause of morbidity and mortality, all over the world. COPD, which was the sixth leading cause of death worldwide in 1990, will become the third one in 2020. COPD is a complex disease, influenced by genetic, behavioral, and environmental factors.

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