BACKGROUND To evaluate the impact of persistent smoking versus smoking cessation over one month prior to surgery on early clinical outcomes in Chinese patients undergoing isolated coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery in a retrospective study. METHODS The peri-operative data of consecutive well-documented patients undergoing isolated CABG surgery from January 2007 to December 2013 we...

OBJECTIVE Increasing evidence suggests that smoking may increase the incidence of prosthesis-related complications after total hip arthroplasty (THA). We performed a meta-analysis of cohort studies to quantitatively evaluate the association between smoking and the risk of prosthesis-related complications after THA. METHODS Relevant articles published before August 15, 2014, were identified by...

Background: Many health problems are related to lifestyle and dietary factors. Increasing trend in reproductive disorders observed in recent years may be associated at least in part with these factors, which are compounded by some of the new emergent life styles. Materials and Methods: The data available suggests that lifestyle factors asuch as obesity, tobacco smoking or chewing, alcohol and s...

Objective. The objective of the study was to examine the pattern of low birth weight LBW, maternal complications, and its related factors among Arab women in Qatar. Design. This is a prospective hospital-based study. Setting. The study was carried out in Women's Hospital, Doha. Subjects and Methods. Pregnant women in their third trimester were identified in the log book of Women's Hospital and ...

aim : the aim of this study was to analyze clinical findings and treatment outcomes of patients with endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography complications. background : endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography has become a very common procedure for the evaluation and treatment of biliary and pancreatic diseases. patients and methods : a retrospective review of 2447 endoscopic retro...

BACKGROUND Hookah smoking has increased worldwide especially among youth and young adults and has been identified as an emerging threat to public health. The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence of hookah use and related factors in a sample of Iranian college students. METHODS This study took place in Tabriz (northwest of Iran) in April and May 2011. The randomly selected ...

INTRODUCTION: Smoking has been associated with increased wound healing complications and overall morbidity in multiple specialties, including plastic surgery.1 From 2005–2014, the smoking rate among U.S. adults decreased from 20.9% to 16.8%.2 This study aims to investigate first, whether smoking prevalence in the plastic surgery patient population paralleled the declining national trend and sec...

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer death worldwide, both in men and women, with an estimated incidence of 1.3 million cases per year. Active, but also passive, smoking represents the main risk factor for developing lung cancer. Smoking also causes other major health complications that could lead the smoker, whether they have cancer or not, to the emergency department (acute exacerbation...