Is adult household smoking associated with increased child emotional and behavioral problems?
Children living with smokers are at increased risk for emotional or behavioral problems, and rates of such problems increase with increasing numbers of smokers in the household, even in the absence of maternal smoking.
physiological variations in plasma glucose concentration influence oesophageal motility and sensation. These observations suggest that in order to minimize effects of varying plasma glucose levels on oesophageal motility, manometry should be performed under the same fasting or fed conditions when oesophageal motor function is evaluated.