Passive Smoking and Heart Disease

PASSIVE SMOKING AND THE RISK OF CORONARY HEART DISEASE AMONG MARRIED NON-SMOKING WOMEN

Several epidemiological studies have reported that passive smoking (PS) is a public health hazard and perhaps increases the risk of heart disease. This study evaluated the relationship between female coronary heart disease and PS among married women who described themselves as non-smokers in an area of south-east Iran. Using household exposure to tobacco smoke as an estimate of PS, a hospi...

Passive smoking and heart disease.

Passive Smoking and Heart Disease

T he first disease linked definitively to active smoking was lung cancer. It is, therefore, not surprising that the first disease identified as caused by passive smoking was also lung cancer.1 Before the advent of mass-marketed cigarettes, lung cancer was a rare disease. Because smoking is the primary cause of lung cancer, identification of this link for both active2 and passive smoking3-was re...

passive smoking and the risk of coronary heart disease among married non-smoking women

several epidemiological studies have reported that passive smoking (ps) is a public health hazard and perhaps increases the risk of heart disease. this study evaluated the relationship between female coronary heart disease and ps among married women who described themselves as non-smokers in an area of south-east iran. using household exposure to tobacco smoke as an estimate of ps, a hospitalba...

Passive smoking and heart disease. Epidemiology, physiology, and biochemistry.

The evidence that ETS increases risk of death from heart disease is similar to that which existed in 1986 when the US Surgeon General concluded that ETS caused lung cancer in healthy nonsmokers. There are 10 epidemiological studies, conducted in a variety of locations, that reflect about a 30% increase in risk of death from ischemic heart disease or myocardial infarction among nonsmokers living...