Zhang, Yuelun Feng, Yunying Chen, Shi Liang, Siyu Wang, Shirui Xu, Ke Ning, Dongping Yuan, Xianxian Zhu, Huijuan Pan, Hui
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundEvidence for correlation between the cigarette use and blood pressure change remains ambiguous. This study modelled relationship between the duration of smoking and systolic blood pressure in a large national multi-ethnic cross-sectional survey in China.MethodsParticipants were selected through a multi-stage probability sampling procedure...
Strand, Mattias Fredlund, Peeter Boldemann, Cecilia Lager, Anton
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundBody image concerns may give rise to a multitude of risk behaviors, such as unhealthy weight control practices, disordered eating behaviors (e.g., compensatory purging or preoccupation with food), smoking, excessive alcohol intake, or sunbed use. However, the distribution of these risk behaviors across adulthood has rarely been studied.Me...
Kowalski, Alysse J. Addo, O. Yaw Kramer, Michael R. Martorell, Reynaldo Norris, Shane A. Waford, Rachel N. Richter, Linda M. Stein, Aryeh D.
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BMC Pediatrics
BackgroundLittle is known about longitudinal patterns of adolescent health risk behavior initial engagement and persistence in low- and middle-income countries.MethodsBirth to Twenty Plus is a longitudinal birth cohort in Soweto-Johannesburg, South Africa. We used reports from Black African participants on cigarette smoking, alcohol, cannabis, illi...
Silverio, Angelo Di Maio, Marco Citro, Rodolfo Esposito, Luca Iuliano, Giuseppe Bellino, Michele Baldi, Cesare De Luca, Giuseppe Ciccarelli, Michele Vecchione, Carmine
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BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
BackgroundA high prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors including age, male sex, hypertension, diabetes, and tobacco use, has been reported in patients with Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) who experienced adverse outcome. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between cardiovascular risk factors and in-hospital mortality i...
Li, Hu Liu, Ying-Xue Huang, Jin-Yan Zhu, Yu-Feng Wang, Kui
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BMC Cardiovascular Disorders
BackgroundThe relationship between IL-35 genes polymorphism and susceptibility to coronary heart disease has not been tested in the largest Han population in China. The aim of this study was to explore the effect of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) of interleukin-35 (IL-35) genes and its relationship with environment on the risk of coronary h...
Li, Linhui Yang, David C Chen, Ching-Hsien
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Free radical biology & medicine
Cigarette smoking is a well-known risk factor for pulmonary diseases, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), asthma and pulmonary fibrosis. Despite major progress in dissecting the mechanisms associated with disease development and progression, findings only represent one aspect of multifaceted disease. A crucial consequence of thi...
Hoffmann, Markus Quabius, Elgar Susanne Fabian, Alexander Laudien, Martin Ambrosch, Petra
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Cancer treatment and research communications
Six own studies confirm a correlation between smoking, expression of the secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor (SLPI, an antileukoproteinase) and expression of Annexin A2 (AnxA2), and their influence on human papilloma virus (HPV)-infections. SLPI and HPV are ligands of AnxA2. This correlation was tested on 928 tissue samples from 892 patients in ...
Grogan, Sarah Walker, Lucy McChesney, Gillian Gee, Ivan Gough, Brendan Cordero, Maria I
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Psychology & health
Objective. This study was designed to investigate UK smokers' accounts of impacts of COVID-19 on their smoking, to develop implications for supporting smoking cessation. Design. One hundred and thirty-two smokers aged 19-52 years (mean age 25 years), recruited through an advert distributed through social media and a dedicated Twitter page, complete...
Aranyosi, Janos K. Deli, Tamas Erdei, Annamaria Toth, Geza Jakab, Attila Fodor, Mariann Nagy, Endre V. Ujhelyi, Bernadett
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BMC Endocrine Disorders
BackgroundThyroid associated orbitopathy (TAO) is the most common extrathyroidal complication of Graves’ disease. The disease course ranges from mild, where symptomatic therapy is sufficient, to severe, where high dose steroid administration or orbital decompression surgery is required. Women of their reproductive age are more likely to be affected...
Vinnikov, Denis Tulekov, Zhangir Romanova, Zhanna Krugovykh, Ilya Blanc, Paul D.
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BMC Public Health
BackgroundExposure to carbon monoxide (CO) remains a leading occupational hazard in firefighters, but cigarette and waterpipe smoking likely contributes to the other sources of CO in such workers. The aim of this study was to estimate the contribution of self-reported active cigarette smoking, waterpipe use, and potential job-related sources of CO ...
