Table 5.
Effect of previous exposure to SHS on dental caries.
| Study | Age | SHS a | Dental caries b |
Effect size (95% CI d) |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Def c |
SHS exposure |
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| Former | Current | |||||
| Leroy, 2008 [23] | 3 | HS | dmft | OR | 1.71 (0.30, 9.65) | 1.98 (0.68, 5.76) |
| 5 | HS | dmft | OR | 0.55 (0.19, 1.65) | 3.36 (1.49, 7.58) | |
| Tanaka, 2009 [24] | 3 | MSP | dmft | PR | 1.21 (0.91, 1.59) | 1.43 (1.07, 1.91) |
| HS | dmft | PR | 1.23 (0.88, 1.71) | 1.25 (1.04, 1.50) | ||
| Tanaka, 2010 [26] | 6–15 | HS | dft | PR | 1.02 (0.99, 1.06) | 1.06 (1.04, 1.08) |
| HS | DFT | PR | 1.03 (1.00, 1.06) | 1.03 (1.00, 1.06) | ||
a
definition of SHS: HS, household smoking; MSP, maternal smoking during pregnancy;
b
definition of dental caries;
c
OR, odds ratio; PR, prevalence ratio;
d
confidence interval.