Of 2110 adult cigarette smokers originally recruited to a study of the effect of antismoking advice in general practice, 429 who reported at follow up after one year that they had tried unsuccessfully to stop smoking were offered "a special antismoking chewing gum," either nicotine gum or a placebo gum, in a double blind study. Of 200 who were willing to try the gum, 101 were randomly allocated...

A 73-year-old woman who had undergone hysterectomy and radiotherapy 17 years previously for uterine leiomyosarcoma presented to the emergency department with newonset exertional shortness of breath of 4-days duration. On admission, she was dizzy and tachypneic at rest. Chest auscultation revealed an apical diastolic murmur, gallop, and bilateral rales, and bilateral pleural effusion and interst...

background: chewing gum is a habit practiced regularly by a relatively high proportion of individuals in many countries including india, and its use has increased within the last decade. the aim of this study was to determine the effects of sugar-free and sugar chewing gums on plaque deposition. materials and methods: the study is a double blind clinical trial involving 16 healthy volunteers (d...

We evaluated the effect of chewing on blood GLP-1 concentration by having volunteers to chew sugarless gum. Our intention was to explore the neural mechanisms regulating the secretion of glucagon-like peptide-1(GLP-1). After fasting for 12 h, 12 healthy male, non-obese volunteers (18 < BMI < 30), were asked to chew sugarless gum at a frequency of 80 times every 2 min for a total of 30 min. Bloo...