They note that "a cigarillo called 'Black 'N Mild' that contains between five and twelve times the nicotine of cigarettes has become the product of choice among African American and other youth" in the counties under study (Page and Evans, 2003:64). To date, there has been only limited...
31 We estimated a logistic regression model of quitting smoking conditional on receiving any mental health treatment during the past year, receiving any substance abuse treatment during the past year, severity of mental illness (mild, moderate, serious), race/ethnicity, age, marital status, ...
The microbiome refers to a community of microbes residing in a defined environment, comprising of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoa, together with their genes and genomes in a given locus. The gastrointestinal microbiome is the most complex echo-system of 10–100 trillion microorganisms, in w...
examined 817 patients, including 514 males with type 2 diabetes mellitus and showed that no differences in mild or moderate nocturia and an inverse association with nocturia with a prevalence ratio of 0.4722. The mean ± SD age of the overall cohort was 61.9 ± 11.1 years. ...
10 Poor cognition in early- to middle-aged adults, such as those in CARDIA, may signal mild but mostly static change in cognition by midlife or may start to define a population at higher risk of later cognitive impairment.10 Finally, while our measure of poor cognition (≥ 1 SD below ...
representingn = 955 independent individuals with 0.95 confidence interval for current smokers compared with non-smokers inE. colistimulation when no plasma protein (top) or CEACAM6 (bottom) is passed as a covariate in the models. Significant (P < 0.01) effect sizes are in black and ...
Influence of cigarette smoking on inhaled corticosteroid treatment in mild asthma Thorax, 57 (3) (2002), pp. 226-230 View in ScopusGoogle Scholar [11] P.M.A. Calverley, J.A. Anderson, R.D. Brook, C. Crim, N. Gallot, S. Kilbride, F.J. Martinez, J. Yates, D.E. Newby, J. ...
In 40 (38%) of the patients with asthma or COPD (n = 104), there was disagreement between the self-reported smoking status and that determined on the basis of the urinary cotinine concentration, a concentration > 200 ng/mL being considered indicative of current smoking. ...
(n = 698; 52% women; 40% black participants; age = 50.3 (SD = 3.5)), we examined the associations of smoking status with total GM volume and GM volume of brain regions linked to neurocognitive and addiction disorders. Linear regression models were used to adjust for vascular...
We accompanied 28 individuals enrolled in a Smoking Cessation Program over 6 months. At Baseline, clinical characteristics, co-morbidities, and smoking history were similar among subjects. After 6 months, two groups were defined: who successfully quitted smoking (named “quitters”, n = 18,...