Objective: To determine the association between smoking and in-hospital outcomes in patients presented with ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction undergoing primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI). Methodology: This prospective cohort study was conducted at Department of Cardiology, National Institute Cardiovascular Disease (NICVD), Karachi, from November 9, 2020 to May 8, 2021. All (curr...

It is vital to ask about illicit drug smoking in the respiratory history as marijuana smoking augments the detrimental effects of tobacco. We describe the case of a 28 year old marijuana smoker who developed a pneumothorax during a breath-holding competition. Pneumothorax is a common clinical entity that every physician should be aware of how to manage and lifetime risk is considerably increase...

Hypothesizing the existence of a subgroup of female smokers for whom nicotine masks, and abstinence unmasks, a tendency toward hyperphagia and perhaps even subthreshold disordered eating, we compared female "weight-control smokers" (WC; n = 46) and "non-weight-control smokers" (NWC; n = 52) on smoking- and eating-related variables. We also examined the relationship between weight-control smokin...

Background Previous cross-sectional studies reported that smoking lowers the incidence of knee osteoarthritis, however, some show no correlation between and osteoarthritis. Thus relationship two has not been clarified [1,2]. To address this issue, we designed a retrospective cohort study to investigate association using large-scale claim database from Korea. best our knowledge, is first on oste...