id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-328620-d2jrn1ip van Gageldonk-Lafeber, Arianne B Risk factors for acute respiratory tract infections in general practitioner patients in The Netherlands: a case-control study 2007-04-27 .txt text/plain 4247 214 50 CONCLUSION: This study confirmed that heterogeneity in the general population as well as in pathogens causing ARTI makes it complicated to detect associations between potential risk factors and respiratory infections. These questionnaires extracted information about exposure to persons with respiratory complaints within or outside their household in the week before consulting the GP, family composition (number of children and adults, presence of children attending day-care, primary school or secondary education), working outside the home and kind of job, use of public transport, type of heating system, exposure to mechanical ventilation system, exposure to dampness or mould at home, keeping pets or cattle, smoking behaviour, and exposure to passive smoking (see Additional file 1). We demonstrated that in the general population (passive) smoking, dampness or mould at home and having family members attending day-care were not associated with a higher risk for ARTI, which is in contrast with studies carried out in children or patients with specific respiratory diseases. ./cache/cord-328620-d2jrn1ip.txt ./txt/cord-328620-d2jrn1ip.txt