Smoking, leisure-time exercise and frequency of self-reported common cold among the general population in northeastern China: a cross-sectional study.

BMC Public Health · 2018 · PMC6389261 · PMID 29486739

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For past smokers, the protective effect of a high frequency of leisure-time exercise appears to approach marginal significance (OR, 0.22; 95%CI, 0.05–0.96; P = 0.045), while the frequency of leisure-time exercise was found to have no statistically significant influence on the risk of the common cold in current and passive smokers.

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