The aim of this study was to assess the effects of smoking on tendinopathies detected by ultrasound in active amateur sportspeople. Fourteen male, 19 female, total 33 amateur sportspeople (mean age, 20.5±2.5) were investigated. Both patellar and Achilles tendons were imaged by high resolution ultrasound. The antero-posterior thicknesses and pathologies (if present) of the tendons were determine...

This study was designed to evaluate the possible in vivo induction of DNA damage by exposure to radiation in cardiologists. The alkaline comet assay (single cell gel electrophoresis, SCGE), which appears to be a promising tool with which to estimate DNA damage at the single cell level, has been used. The assay was carried out on 30 cardiologists currently employed in a busy cardiac service and ...

AIM This study aimed to assess the long-term respiratory effects of tear gases among the subjects with history of frequent exposure. MATERIALS AND METHODS A questionnaire by NIOSH and pulmonary function tests was performed in 93 males exposed to the tear gases frequently and 55 nonexposed subjects. RESULTS The mean numbers of total exposure and last 2 years exposure were 8.4 ± 6.4 times, 5....

In English-speaking, Western-Anglo countries, where smoking has become stigmatized in recent decades as a result of widespread anti-smoking campaigns, smokers commonly report poorer psychological health on average than nonsmokers do. This may be indirectly related to the strong pressures to quit in such countries, as poorer psychological health is associated with a reduced likelihood of quittin...

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The article by Repace and Lowrey (1) is an interesting and useful aid for evaluating the exposure levels of nonsmokers to cigarette smoke. The article, however, is flawed because it compares the levels to those of smokers of cigarettes delivering the lowest amount of tar of any brand on the market. This cigarette delivered 0.55 mg of tar in 1978 and accounted for less than 2 percent of the ciga...

A 58-year-old nonsmoker female was referred for evaluation of chronic cough of 13 months duration. After an initial work-up, the patient was diagnosed to have chronic cough due to eosinophilic bronchitis. The diagnostic work-up for eosinophilic bronchitis and bronchial biopsy is discussed. Eosinophilic bronchitis is differentiated from asthma. In addition, the patient developed dyspnea, flushin...

We are reporting a case of solitary endobronchial papilloma located in posterior segment of the left upper lobe of the lung with malignant transformation and negative human papilloma virus (HPV) strains in a 40-year-old Saudi nonsmoker man. The patient had a concomitant tuberculosis (TB) infection. The patient received appropriate treatment in the form of anti-TB medication and surgical resecti...

A 40-year-old Omani male, nonsmoker, presented with right-sided chest pain and weight loss of four months duration. He gave a history of pleural effusion five years ago, which was investigated thoroughly including Mantoux and multiple pleural biopsies. Though no definite diagnosis was made at that time, the effusion resolved spontaneously. His current chest radiograph (Figure 1) and a represent...

Like cigarette smoking, the risks from cigar smoking increase with increased exposure. For example, compared with someone who has never smoked, smoking only one to two cigars per day doubles the risk for oral and esophageal cancers. Smoking three to four cigars daily can increase the risk of oral cancers to more than eight times the risk for a nonsmoker, while the chance of esophageal cancer is...