Current cigarette smokingSex-related inequalitiesRisky behaviours, including tobacco use, are highly prevalent among adolescents worldwide. Although these behaviours are largely influenced by various sociodemographic factors, including sex, there is a paucity of regionally representative literature on the sex-...
Chapter 6: Comorbidities and Current Smoking Status amongst Patients starting Renal Replacement Therapy in England, Wales and Northern Ireland from 2003 to... UK Renal Registry 13th Annual Report (December 2010): Chapter 4: Comorbidities and current smoking status amongst patients starting renal ...
Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage is associated with serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D levels, gender and smoking status. The Troms Staph and Skin Study Vitamin D induces the expression of antimicrobial peptides with activity against Staphylococcus aureus. Thus, we studied the association between serum 25-h...
There are many opportunities for interventions or nudges to minimise engagement in potentially addictive behaviours. These have worked for tobacco where some countries such as Australia have seen smoking rates fall by over 70% [92]. Ideally, legislation and government health and social policy should ...
The documents also depict a comprehensive research program on the pharmacology of nicotine and the central role of nicotine in smoking behaviour. British American Tobacco scientists noted that “… the present scale of the tobacco industry is largely dependent on the intensity and nature of the ...
‘screening lifetime’ and estimating the risk of an underlying cancer being present at the time of screening. Compared to settings such as lung cancer screening, where smoking history has the predominant effect on decision-making and may approach immediate diagnostic relevance, the long-term ...
Low dose CT (computed tomography) lung cancer screening may be justified in current moderate smokers with a smoking history of 20-29 pack years, says a US study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute ,1 which found that they had a similar risk of developing lung cancer to...
In another example, MR was used to determine that tobacco smoking may cause a reduced BMI and a higher resting heart rate, but did not find a strong causal association between smoking and adverse blood pressure, serum lipids, and glucose levels(Åsvold et al., 2014). MR promises to be ...
(including more patient information than US Medicare, such as height, weight, smoking history, and stage of cancer). There have been hundreds of clinical studies using DPC data to-date, making it the most widely reported RWD sources in Japan. Since 2010, the government and medical societies ...
EU was significantly associated with lifetime and past 30-day cigarette smoking and the number of cigarette-smoking days and cigarettes smoked. Most e-cigarette users considered e-cigarettes as less harmful. Main reasons for EU were no smell, lower harm, and feasibility to use in non-smoking ...