Abstract
To find out the frequency and risk factors of infantile acute otitis media (AOM) in Ankara; computerized patient data from a pediatrician's private practice were evaluated retrospectively. 106 attacks of AOM in 70 of 442 infants were evaluated and compared with 55 healthy control infants who had experienced no AOM attacks in their first year of life. The attack rate of AOM in the first year of life was about 24 percent; 15.8% (70 of 442) of the infants had had AOM, it being more frequent, in the second half of the first year, irrespective of sex. With the exception of summer, when the incidence is low, AOM struck with almost the same frequency in other seasons. 27 of the 70 infants (39%) with AOM were exclusively breast-fed, which was significantly less than the controls (76%); 49 of them (70%) were exposed to passive smoking, compared with only 31% of the control infants (p
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